A 77-year-old Russian scientist, Anatoly Maslov, was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for “treason” for, according to Russian media, passing classified data to a foreign power. “The court imposed a sentence of 14 years of deprivation of liberty in a penal colony of a strict regime,” the judicial system of the St. Petersburg region announced without further clarification of the substance of the case, which remains unclear, as the case has been classified as secret after his arrest scientist in June 2022. According to the state-run TASS news agency, he was accused of passing on information about Russia's hypersonic weapons program, that is, those supposedly “invincible” weapons praised by Vladimir Putin. The Kommersant newspaper claimed for its part that this data was handed over to Germany's intelligence services. According to Maslov's lawyer, Olga Dinze, cited by TASS, the scientist rejects the charges and proclaims his innocence. “He said he didn't do anything wrong […]
Source: News Beast
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