
The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow extended to the 72 -year -old citizen of Ukraine Yuri Soloshenko, the former director of the Poltava defense plant "Banner", arrested on charges of espionage - the term of detention in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center until June 5, and only 10 months. This was reported by RAPSI.
Soloshenko was detained when he arrived in Moscow to meet with business partners. Under article 276 of the Criminal Code (espionage), the former director threatens from 10 to 20 years in a colony. At the same time, as the son of the prisoner stated, "everyone knows that he was framed by a friend with whom he cooperated and trusted."
Soloshenko himself rejects the prosecution, stating that "by definition could not be a spy."
The investigation is conducted by the FSB. The case of the former director is classified.
On Tuesday, it became known that the special service still does not allow the teams of the “team 29” - Ivan Pavlov and Evgeny Smirnov to Soloshenko . The arrested twice appealed to the investigator with a petition for the admission of these lawyers to him; Pavlov and Smirnov themselves also filed petitions of similar content twice. Nevertheless, the investigator ignored all appeals.
“Soloshenko, according to our data, does not have a lawyer at all!” Pavlov remarked. “The consul of Ukraine is not allowed to him. The question is: is there a complete chaos there? The person, in fact, is kept hostage.”
Lawyers turned to the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, but the judge did not accept the complaint for consideration.
“All this, in our opinion, is done in order to prevent the repetition of the“ Casus Davydova, ” the lawyer concluded.“ The investigation is trying to press this matter with a stone and not release it. ”