A 77-year-old Russian scientist, Anatoli Maslov, was sentenced Tuesday for “treason” to fourteen years in prison for having transmitted, according to Russian media, secret data to a foreign power.
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“The court set a sentence of fourteen years of deprivation of liberty in a penal colony with a harsh regime,” the judiciary for the St. Petersburg region said in a statement, without giving further details on the merits of the sentence. affair. A case with vague contours, the file having been classified secret since the scientist’s arrest in June 2022.