The Moscow city court on the last working day of the week extended until July 27, the term of imprisonment under arrest relative accused of treason Gennady Kravtsov, said Last news, his lawyer Alexander Ivanov.

Kravtsov is charged under item 275 of the criminal code (treason), placed into custody, he was on may 27 last year.

"The court extended Kravtsov period of detention for two months, i.e. until 27 July," he said. The case is marked with a signature stamp " confidentially ".

before the Moscow city court reported that since the beginning of 2014 in the Russian capital on charges of treason and espionage detained nine people.

The most notorious was the detention of mothers with many children Svetlana Davydova for a call to the residence of the Ambassador of Ukraine with information about the " transfer of Russian troops in Donetsk ". After the scandal Davydov was released from Moscow jail "Lefortovo" under recognizance not to leave, and she went home to the Smolensk region.

often the charges of treason were required of defendants long before learned about it the press, and published in mass media information on these processes are extremely scarce because of privacy cases.

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