MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Employees and visitors to eight Moscow district courts were evacuated due to bomb threat reports, the press service of the Moscow City Court told TASS.
- Eight district courts in Moscow evacuated over bomb threats on Tuesday, says source
- At least 30 malls and 35 hospitals of St. Petersburg receive bomb threats — source
- District courts in Moscow, St. Petersburg evacuated over bomb threats
- Over 700 banks receive bomb threats in 24 hours in Moscow
- Emailed bomb threats trigger evacuation of over 10 agencies in Siberia's Tomsk
- Police detain suspect in hoax bomb threats to Moscow airports
- Domodedovo confirms anonymous bomb threats, airport security beefed up
- Reports of bomb threats in Moscow malls were made from phone number registered in Ukraine
The Gagarinsky, Chertanovsky, Troitsky, Lefortovsky, Khoroshyovsky, Tagansky, Cheryomushkinsky and Timiryazevsky district courts were evacuated on Thursday, the court's press service said.
A wave of bomb threats descended upon Moscow on November 28 and they all turned out to be hoaxes. That said, on December 3 nine district courts in the Russian capital, Moscow State University’s History Museum and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior received anonymous bomb threats, which turned out to be hoaxes. The extortionists demanded that ransom money be transferred to them in bitcoins so that they would not to carry out their criminal intentions.
According to TASS’ law enforcement source, these racketeers, who are anonymously reporting bomb threats to Moscow courts and other facilities in the Russian capital are doing it from overseas, quite possibly from Ukraine.