The FSB detained an employee of a defense plant in the Moscow region for treason: he "handed over photographs of fragments of drawings of parts of military aviation equipment" to an employee of the Odessa Aviation Plant. This was reported to TASS at the Center for Public Relations (DSP) of the FSB.
A criminal case was opened against him under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“High treason”), and they chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention for him.
According to the service, a resident of the Moscow region held the position of quality director of an aircraft plant and had access to technical documentation marked “top secret”. The worker photographed fragments of drawings on a smartphone and sent them using “electronic communication channels” to a citizen of Ukraine, an employee of the Odessa Aviation Plant.
In Russia, the article on “treason” is applied not only to employees of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of the Ministry of Defense, but also to journalists. On September 5, Ivan Safronov, a former Kommersant journalist and ex-adviser to the head of Roscosmos, was given 22 years in a strict regime colony , as well as a fine of 500 thousand rubles and two years of restriction of freedom after his release in the case of "transferring classified information" about the Russian Armed Forces. According to the indictment published by Proekt in August, Safronov's case is based solely on assumptions: none of the "witnesses" knows anything about the "crimes" of the journalist. And almost all the information that he allegedly passed on and which is considered "state secret" is in the public domain. Safronov was arrested in early July 2020. The FSB believes that in 2017 he allegedly handed over classified data to the Czech intelligence service, which worked under the leadership of the United States.
At the end of August, a student from St. Petersburg received a warning about "treason" for trying to call a Ukrainian number. The FSB decided that a student of the military department, having access to state secrets, was trying to get in touch with the special services of Ukraine and help Ukrainian volunteer associations.
