- March 24, 2015
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Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction saleswoman from Sochi Catherine Kharebava for which she received six years in prison for spying for Georgia. Protecting the Russians intend to appeal this decision.
Espionage , according to investigators, was the fact that Kharebava, who worked at the time clerk in one of Sochi shops, noticed the movement of Russian military before the Russian-Georgian armed conflict in 2008.
On what he saw the defendant informed the representative of the central Georgian intelligence than how to count indictment, to harm the interests of the state.
The protection, in turn, insists that the observations Kharebava shared with a friend from Georgia.
As a lawyer told BBC Russian Service, Kharebava has been detained since May 2013. She has children who according to the lawyer, has come of age.
According to the lawyer, Kharebava is in remand prison №5 FSB in Krasnodar.
Erchenko also told Interfax that his The defendant has no relation to the military or to public service.
The military conflict in August 2008, which in Russia called “force Georgia to peace”, has led to Moscow’s recognition of independence of Georgia’s two breakaway regions – Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia’s withdrawal from the CIS and almost put an end to relations between Moscow and Tbilisi.
Conversation in the bus
In January Investigation Department of the Federal Security Service opened a criminal case in respect of a large mother Svetlana Davydova after it became known that in April last year Davydova contacted the Ukrainian embassy and said that military unit near her home in the town of Vyazma was empty, and the military were allegedly sent to Ukraine.
Davydova based their assumptions on the bus overheard a telephone conversation, which indicated that the soldiers were sent to Donetsk.
January 22 Lefortovo court of Moscow arrested Davydov two months. On charges of gosizmene Davydova faced up to 20 years in prison.
In defense Davydova with the filing of her husband and lawyers turned quite a large-scale campaign in the media and social networks. A petition to change the measure of restraint and release the nursing mother from the detention center signed tens of thousands of people.
3 February Davydov released from prison on bail, and on March 13 the criminal case was closed.
The lawyer said Kharebava BBC Russian Service that the case is different from the case Davydova his client, as in Davydova military experts initially determined that she did not give a state secret, whereas in the case Kharebava expert opinion is less clear.
A series of accused gosizmene
The arrest of raising seven children Svetlana Davydova was one of the most resonant of all cases of espionage and gosizmene, which are discussed in Russia.
Since 2014, according to the Moscow City, Russia has been arrested nine people on articles “gosizmena” and “espionage”.
“In the period from January 1, 2014 to March 3, 2015 Lefortovo court City of Moscow had ordered the remand in custody as against seven persons accused of treason, as well as the arrest of two persons accused of committing espionage “- quoted by Tass press secretary of Moscow City Court Ulyana Solopova.
In early March, a former police major Roman Ushakov from Siberia decision of the Moscow City Court to 15 years in a penal colony for treason: he was found guilty in the transmission data of the CIA.
In gosizmene in favor of the United States also accused former employee of the Russian Orthodox Church in the past FSB Eugene Petrin. According to Russian media, Petrin moved from the FSB to work in the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, where he was responsible for communicating with foreigners. According to the lawyer, Petrin does not recognize guilt and many of his testimony was given under duress.
At the beginning of February, it was also aware of the case against nuclear scientist Vladimir Golubev. He is suspected of divulging state secrets in connection with the report of explosives which he had made in the Czech Republic in 2013, and then in the form of an article published in a scientific journal.
A few days Lefortovsky court informed of the arrest of an employee’s Black Sea Fleet Russian Sergei Minakova in connection with charges of espionage. The case against Minakova has “secret”.
In November 2012, Russia entered into force of an amendment to the articles of treason in the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, under which accusations of espionage can be made extremely wide circle of Russians in contact with foreign organizations.
Under the concept of “gosizmena” covered not only the disclosure of state secrets, but also providing “financial, logistical, advice or assistance” to international organizations.
In addition to the amendments to the existing articles of the Penal Code and the new Russia introduced – illegally obtaining information constituting a state secret. It provides for liability even when receiving classified information will not be considered espionage or gosizmenoy.
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