Lefortovo Court of Moscow on Thursday 5 August extended the detention of the accused in the treason Yuri Soloshenko, which, according to media reports, is a citizen of Ukraine and previously chaired the Ukrainian defense enterprise " Banner ", said Last news press Secretary Yulia Skotnikova.

"The court satisfied the petition of the investigation and extended the term of detention is relatively Soloshenko before 5 August," - said the Agency interlocutor.

She also recalled that the case materials are classified as " secret ".

This year it was announced about a number of arrests and the arrest of suspects of treason and espionage. For example, the consequence was suspected of treason servant of the black sea fleet Sergey Minakov, which is then released from jail. In addition, under arrest is a former employee of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Yevgeny Petrin and Gennady Kravtsov, accused of passing classified data to the West.

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 in the Smolensk region. Then the case against Davydova stopped.

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