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2020: Detention of the adviser to the head of Roscosmos Rogozin on suspicion of treason
On July 7, 2020, Ivan Safronov was detained by the investigating authorities on charges of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The state corporation announced the arrest of the adviser to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on its website.
Roscosmos said that Safronov's detention does not concern his current work at the company. Roscosmos provides all possible assistance to the investigating authorities, the corporation added.
Safronov faces up to 20 years in prison. The FSB reported that the journalist is suspected of transferring classified information to a representative of one of the NATO special services.
According to TASS, the materials of the criminal case contain information marked with the stamp "secret," and therefore all trials in the case will be held behind closed doors. Investigators conducted searches in the journalist's apartment, seized documents and electronic media that are of interest to the investigation.
Dmitry Rogozin, in a conversation with TASS, said that Safronov did not have access to classified information and was invited to cover the activities of Roscosmos. The head of the state corporation added that for several years he knew Safronov as a journalist who deeply understood the material that he was preparing for publications in the Kommersant newspaper. Rogozin added that he did not doubt the "high professionalism and personal decency" of this person.
Before his appointment as Rogozin's adviser in May of this year, Safronov worked as a journalist at Kommersant and Vedomosti. The Kommersant newspaper called the accusation against journalist Ivan Safronov absurd, the newspaper said in a statement.
The detention of Ivan Safronov is not related to his activities as a journalist, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He found it difficult to answer the question whether this means a connection between Safronov's detention and his work at Roskosmos. Peskov said that they do not know about the details of what happened in the Kremlin.[1]
2022
Sentence of 22 years in prison for treason
On September 5, 2022, the Moscow City Court sentenced the ex-adviser to the head of Roscosmos to 22 years in a strict regime colony in the case of high treason. In addition, he was assigned two years of restriction of freedom after his release and a fine of 500 thousand rubles.
During the sentence, the time that Safronov spent in the pre-trial detention center will be counted. The prosecution asked to sentence him to 24 years in a maximum security colony.
According to RIA Novosti, the case was heard behind closed doors, but the public was allowed before the verdict was announced. The court limited itself to reading the introductory and operative parts, omitting the descriptive and motivational parts.
Lawyer Pavel Chikov noted that he did not find sentences in cases of treason with terms of more than 20 years.
 | It must be understood that the sanction of Article 275 of the Criminal Code implies a maximum punishment of 20 years. The court appointed Ivan Safronov more, because he was accused of two episodes, the punishment for each of which is assigned separately. Then the court determined the final term by partial or complete addition, - wrote Chikov in his Telegram channel. |  |
According to Chikov, the usual "fork" of terms for sentences in cases of treason was from 6 to 9 years, while in the last five years sentences of 12-15 years have become frequent. He called the verdict to Safronov Izuversky.
According to the version, FSB Safronov for several years performed tasks of one of the special services, Czech Republic collected and transmitted information about military-technical cooperation, defense and security. RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The defendant's lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov said that during the break, one of the court hearings, one of the state prosecutors, Elvira Zotchik, offered Safronov to plead guilty in exchange for a 12-year sentence, but he refused. Ivan Safronov pleaded not guilty and in his last word stated that the case against him was related to his journalistic activities.[2]
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