Chervov Alexander

Biography

2023: Sentence - 17 years of strict regime for sabotage

In August 2023, a court in the Kemerovo region convicted 41-year-old pathologist Alexander Chervov in the case of sabotage on power transmission lines and the preparation of a terrorist attack. The doctor received 17 years in a maximum security colony.

A pathologist from Kuzbass was given 17 years of strict regime for sabotage

As a result of the investigative actions, it was established that Chervov, on the instructions of the curators outside Russia, three times damaged the supports and fasteners of the power line in the Zavodsky district of the city of Kemerovo. During the commission of crimes, the Kemerovo resident used conspiracy techniques, moved on a bicycle and tried not to leave traces. During the search at Chervov, canisters with an incendiary mixture of bottles with a Molotov cocktail, saltpeter, gas masks, as well as maps of Kuzbass and Ukraine were found. In addition, investigators seized a diary from the man in which he described the preparation of sabotage on power lines, and also planned attacks on military commissariats and police departments. He did this all guided by political motives and hatred of Russia.

Chervov, who worked as a pathologist at the Kuzbass Regional Clinical Hospital, was detained in May 2022. Initially, he was suspected of unscrewing bolts and trying to file cables holding power transmission line supports, including objects on the territory of the Novokemerovskaya CHPP. After checking the contents of his smartphone, counterintelligence officers found there schemes for the location of military registration and enlistment offices and police departments in Kemerovo, which, as the investigation admits, could become his goals. One of the main evidence was the detainee's personal diary with records confirming his sabotage, Kommersant reports. In a video of the interrogation conducted by the security forces, the man said:

Initially, there was an idea to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office - empty, of course, without people.[1]

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