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2024: Sentence - 14 years for treason
In May 2024, the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced to 14 years in prison the chief researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics named after S. A. Khristianovich of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) Anatoly Maslov. The scientist was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, the case was heard behind closed doors in connection with the presence of the "Top Secret" stamp.
According to a TASS source, the Novosibirsk scientist is accused of transmitting data related to hypersonic representing state secrets. The investigation of the case was carried out by the central office of the FSB. The state prosecution requested for Maslov 17 years in prison in a strict regime colony with restriction of freedom for one year after leaving the colony and a fine of 500,000 rubles. The sentence passed, in addition to imprisonment in a maximum security colony, includes restriction of liberty for 1 year and deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to access to state secrets for 2 years.
According to Kommersant, the pursuit of a scientist specializing in physics and plasma chemistry, who was engaged in research in the field of hydrocarbon fuel for aviation, began after the former head of the Research Institute of Hypersonic Systems Alexander Kuranov testified against him. The latter was also accused of high treason, but concluded a pre-trial agreement with the prosecutor's office, within the framework of which he reported the information he had about Maslov. According to the source of the publication, investigators interested Maslov allegedly because of his cooperation with representatives of Germany.
According to lawyer Maslov, he "did nothing wrong and illegal, devoted his whole life to family and domestic science." The physicist's defense insisted on the absence of corpus delicti, since, according to her, Maslov did not transmit the information in the transfer of which he was accused, and this information is not a state secret.[1]
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