A criminal case against an Armenian citizen, Ashot Arakelyan, has been transferred to a magistrate’s court in Sochi.
Arakelyan filed a false report to the police about an impending explosion in the Kremlin, the Krasnodar Territory prosecutor's office said.
The incident, for which the 37-year-old Arakelyan was taken into custody, took place on January 15.
“According to the investigation, the Armenian citizen, who was illegally in Russia, in order to attract attention phoned the call center of the department of interior in Sochi, and deliberately made a false report on an impending explosion in the Kremlin,” RIA Novosti news agency cited the prosecutor's office's message.
The defendant could face up to three years in prison under the article 'deliberate false reports about a terrorist act'.
