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Kuban inventor is about to be jailed for ordering solvent for solar panels
The Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced 26-year-old inventor Dmitry Lopatin to three years probation for ordering a solvent from China (the substance was on the list of banned imports to Russia).
Prosecutors demanded that he be given 11 years of real life, but the court refused to find Lopatin guilty of smuggling, and sentenced him only for attempted trafficking in psychotropic substances. The prosecutor's office appealed against the decision of the court, which he issued on June 17.
“We do not agree with the removal of charges against Lopatin for smuggling and the appointment of a suspended sentence. Of course, we took into account that the defendant is a young scientist whose inventions arouse interest among investors, ”said Anton Lopatin, a representative of the Krasnodar prosecutor’s office.
Dmitry Lopatin, a postgraduate graduate of the Department of Radiophysics and Nanotechnology of the Kuban State University, presented his solar panels at the Hello Tomorrow international science and technology entrepreneurship summit. Shell was interested in them.
“In Europe, too, many things are prohibited, but there, for a simple order, they will not put handcuffs on the inventor,” the scientist complains. It's all because of the ill-fated liter of gamma-butyrolactone solvent, which Krasnodar ordered by mail from China. He did not know that this substance, according to recent Russian laws, was classified as a psychotropic one.