Kovalyov Novel

Biography

2020: 7 years of prison for treason

On June 22, 2020 the Moscow regional court sentenced the chief of the Center of heat exchange and aero gas dynamics (TsTA) of Central Research and Development Institute of mechanical engineering (TSNIIMASH is leading scientific research institute of Roskosmos state corporation) Roman Kovalyov to seven years of prison for high treason.

Criminal case concerning Roman Kovalyov was considered in a special order. It is necessary to serve sentence to it in corrective colony of strict regime.

The scientist from Roskosmos was put for 7 years for treason

Roman Kovalyov  was arrested  in June, 2019. According to the investigators, he together with the teacher Victor Kudryavtsev gave to NATO confidential data about the latest rocket developments.

In particular, the investigation incriminates to Kudryavtsev transfer of the classified information Belgian Von Karmanowskoma to institute of hydrodynamics — TSNIIMASH worked with it according to the FP7-SPACE program, and Kudryavtsev within this program supervised from the Russian institute the TRANSHYBERIAN project connected with influence studying "wall temperatures on transition at hypersonic flow of a cone by means of experiments and computational modeling".

Victor Kudryavtsev does not admit guilt. He said that it had no access to the restricted information. According to the investigation, information from letters it is possible to use for creation of weapon.  In turn, as TASS with reference to a source in intelligence agencies reports, Kudryavtsev's pupil Roman Kovalyov admitted the guilt.

In the Background Karmanovsky institute said that after careful investigation could not "find any traces of disclosure of the classified information by group of Dr. Kudryavtsev in the context of the TRANSHYBERIAN project".

Kudryavtsev was in the pre-trial detention center of Lefortovo since July, 2018. In a year the court replaced to it a measure of restraint with recognizance not to leave in connection with detection at a scientific oncological disease.^[1]

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