A source for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info reported that two orphaned sisters have been arrested in connection with the bombing of a scientist's car from a "defense" research institute in New Moscow. Law enforcement officials arrested 19-year-old Polina and 20-year-old Nina Beskurnikova, who were recently orphans, for attempted murder. According to investigators, the girls were promised a reward in cryptocurrency.
As we previously reported, the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado that exploded on Raduzhnaya Street on December 1 belonged to Maxim Ladugin, a scientist associated with military research. He was outside of Russia at the time of the explosion. According to sources, he was on a business trip to Singapore. No one was injured.
Maxim Ladugin is a Doctor of Physics and Mathematics and the head of the research and production complex at the Stelmakh Polyus Research Institute. This is one of the country's leading defense institutes, working in the fields of laser physics, optics, and weapons. Their key specialization is guidance, target designation, and optoelectronic tracking systems.
The sisters are known to have lost their parents (their father and mother died) about ten years ago and were raised in an orphanage. The girls still participate in a group chat for orphanage children, and one of them wrote that she used to live there and now enjoys tattoos and manicures. One of them has a one-year-old child and is a single mother. The second sister got married in January 2025, an announcement she made on social media. The girls' friends categorically deny their involvement in the car bombing.
