The Moscow city court sentenced the former Director of the Ukrainian enterprise "Znamya" 73-year-old Yuri Soloshenko to six years in a penal colony for espionage in favor of Ukraine.
about it it is reported in the operative part of the verdict judge Andrew Resovskogo, reports " information Agency ".
the FSB said that the judge tried to smuggle to Ukraine parts for s-300, RIA " Novosti ". According to the lawyer, Soloshenko fully admitted his guilt. Recall, February 6, Moscow police have busted a former Director of the Ukrainian defense enterprises "Banner" Yuri Soloshenko, accused of espionage. Son Soloshenko Alexander confirmed the detention of the father. According to his statement, the father tied during a business trip to the capital of Russia in the last month of summer last year, where Soloshenko went to buy equipment. The detainee convinced the son that the father "set up" an acquaintance, with whom he collaborated. Yuri Soloshenko about 20 years headed the Poltava plant " Banner ". In 2010 he retired. We emphasize, in recent period the attention of the Russian media has attracted several " spy " scandal. In June the chief engineer of one of the Moscow scientific-industrial complexes Maxim Ludomirsky accused of treason. In February the authorities charged with divulging state secrets ex-employee of a Russian nuclear center in the Nizhny Novgorod region Vladimir Golubev. In 2003, the employee RFNC made a scientific report on the Symposium in the Czech Republic, which was later posted. The publication of this report was the reason for initiating a criminal case concerning Golubeva. He faces up to 4 years of imprisonment. In the same month, the court arrested on charges of treason of former employee GRU Gennady Kravtsova. On September 21, the Moscow city court has pronounced a sentence for treason Kravtsov to 14 years imprisonment.

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