Russian prosecutors have requested a 17-year jail sentence for 77-year-old Russian scientist Anatoly Maslov, who’s accused of “passing categorized data to German intelligence companies,” in response to a report within the Kommersant newspaper.
Anatoly Maslov is on trial in Russia for prime treason in a closed-door trial.
In accordance with Kommersant, the protection acknowledged {that a} jail sentence would quantity to a dying sentence, given Anatoly Maslov’s age and poor well being. The Russian scientist suffered a coronary heart assault earlier this yr.
Anatoly Maslov was arrested in June 2022 and is one in every of three scientists from the identical Siberian institute accused of handing over state secrets and techniques.
All had been engaged on Moscow’s supersonic expertise program, the analysis that entails creating supersonic missiles that journey at 10 occasions the velocity of sound and are able to penetrating anti-aircraft methods.
All three scientists deny their guilt. The case got here to gentle final yr when their colleagues printed an open letter of assist and stated the prosecutions threatened to deal a severe blow to Russian science.
Final month, Alexander Kuranov, one other scientist engaged on the ultrasound expertise program, was convicted of treason and jailed for seven years. He was additionally accused of “handing over state secrets and techniques to international nationals”.
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