A military expert from St. Petersburg was sentenced to 7 years in a colony for the Stateizer

In St. Petersburg, the court sentenced to seven years the colony of military expert Vladimir Neelov, who was accused of treason. This was reported by the United press service of the city courts.

The prosecution insisted that Neelov for money transferred data on the process of training and retraining of operational employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation for money for money. The convict pleaded guilty, but said that he did not know about the secrecy of the information transmitted.

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Neelov was arrested in November 2018 in Moscow. Interfax wrote that the arrested person worked as an expert at the center of strategic assessments and forecasts. The organization’s website says that Neelov specializes "in the study of private military companies and the phenomenon of" privatization of the military sphere ", the features of modern wars, military doctrines and strategies." He is the author of works on private military campaigns in the southeast of Ukraine, analysis of the special services of Georgia and others.

In 2017, Neelov wrote that there was no “no reliable information” about the existence of Wagner PMCs, but a few months before the arrest in another article, he spoke about the probability of legalizing private military campaigns in Russia, noting that “the tonality of materials on the possible activities of the so -called Wagner PMC gradually changed.

Earlier, the New Gazeta reported that in 2015-2019, several dozen employees in PMCs died in Syria. The group suffered the most significant losses, however, in February 2018 as a result of the blow of American aviation near Hisham while trying to capture the oil refinery: from 60 to 200 people died. The Russian Foreign Ministry then recognized the fact of the death and wounds of dozens of Russians, but noted that they were in Syria as private individuals.