Bryansk engineer was released from real punishment for disclosing state secrets

The Supreme Court changed the sentence of three years in prison to a suspended sentence for the Bryansk engineer of Gostekhnadzor Viktor Ryzhanov. He was accused of collecting information constituting a state secret (Article 283.1 of the Criminal Code). The court decided to release Ryzhanov. about it Writes "Mediazona".

In October 2017, the Bryansk Regional Court sentenced Ryzhanov to imprisonment. The reason for initiating a criminal case was Ryzhanov's conversation with a border guard: according to the investigation, the defendant received information about the border patrol order.

“My client talked with one of the border guards - they previously served in the army together and maintained friendly relations. In conversations with Ryzhanov, his friend told him several times whether he would go on patrol today. Ryzhanov could not assume that these words contained a state secret: in the village, which is located in close proximity to the border with Ukraine, it is clear that if the border guards went to work, then there would be a patrol, ”said Ivana Pavlov, Team 29 lawyer . I talked with the border guard Ryzhanov in order not to declare goods purchased on the territory of Ukraine.

To know what information constitutes a state secret, you need to read secret instructions and orders, and this can only be done by persons with special access to state secrets, the lawyer noted. Ryzhanov had no such access.

Border guard Vladimir Kornienko was sentenced to one and a half years in prison.