The Moscow city court for six months extended the arrest of former employee GRU Gennady Kravtsov, accused of passing classified information to the West, said Last news in court on Wednesday.

The case is stamped with " top secret ", for this reason the Details until not disclosed. The hearing will also be held behind closed doors.

By assumption of the investigation, Kravtsov gave top secret data to one of the Western countries. However, before mass-media referring to his wife reported that he just wrote in the Swedish company a letter of request to take to the workplace, but was refused. As said Last news, one of the participants in the process, the investigation has not established that for his information, he got the money.

This year it was announced about a number of arrests and the arrest of suspects of treason and espionage. Literally today this list has 2 new names - Lefortovo court extended the detention of Victor Shura and Eugene Chistova. The plot of the charges is not disclosed because of privacy.

The loudest in this series 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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