A lawyer was not allowed to see a person convicted of treason

A lawyer was not allowed to visit former GRU radio engineer Gennady Kravtsov, who was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime colony on charges of treason and is in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. According to the Newspaper. Ru”, according to lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov, he was not allowed into the pre-trial detention center, because his lawyer’s certificate did not bear the stamp of the territorial body of justice, although such documents had recently been issued by the Ministry of Justice. Smirnov explained that because of the refusal to go to the pre-trial detention center, he now cannot discuss with his client the comments on the received text of the verdict. The law allocates only three days for submission of comments, the text was received on November 17th.

Kravtsov was accused of high treason in connection with the fact that he sent a resume to the Swedish company, where he “disclosed data on the personnel of the intelligence agencies”, as well as “on the military purpose of the Tselina-2 spacecraft”, although the validity of the non-disclosure agreement of the state his secrets had already expired by that time.