Advisor to the head of the security service of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky said that the Desnyansky district court of Chernihiv as if he had been convicted a Russian citizen to nine years in prison for espionage.
"Today, April 22, Desnyanskiy district court of Chernihiv convicted and deprived the citizen of the Russian Federation" M " of liberty for a term of nine years with the departure of recompense in the penal colony ", - Lubkivsky wrote on Facebook, explaining the name of the convict.



according to him, the investigators of the security service of Ukraine indictment with respect to this citizen of Russia according to paragraph "preparation for espionage" of the criminal code of Ukraine was aimed at the court in July 2014." Hiding behind fake documents in the name of a citizen of Ukraine, the Russian citizen who was detained by the SBU, collecting data in the field of economy, science and technology, state security and law enforcement, is a state secret, for subsequent transmission to the security services of the Russian Federation ", - said the Adviser to the head of the SBU. This is not the 1st similar case. In the early winter of last year the Shevchenkovsky district court of Lviv sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment of a citizen of Russia, found guilty of espionage, said the security Service of Ukraine. In addition, in the last month of summer last year Ovidiopol district court of Odessa region was subjected to charges of the Russian guilty of "violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine" and sentenced to five years of imprisonment.

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