The Supreme Court began to consider the cassation in the case of the ex-teacher of MAI Alexei Vorobyov about the Stateizer, convicted due to particles of Chinese dust on the phone

On Thursday, June 9, the Supreme Court will consider the cassation appeal of the 45-year-old scientist Alexei Vorobyov, sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony. The ex-report of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) has been in imprisonment for the fourth year, he had a wife and three-year-old daughter at large. Health worsened in the scientist’s dungeons - a fibrous disease of the lungs and tumors on his arm and jaw appeared. Vorobyov’s defense believes that the case against him appeared due to the provocation of the FSB. “New newspaper. Europe ”tells as a result and the court gathered a criminal case of Gosizman in fact from a couple of dust dust.

The ex-user of the department of missile engines MAI Vorobyov is serving a sentence in a colony of maximum security No. 7 in the city of Valoiki for Belgorod for more than six months, now he was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 4 of Moscow to participate in cassation. In the case of the Stateismman, the scientist was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to other articles - at all another five. The meetings were held closed. According to investigators, Vorobyov has “vast and stable connections” with certain people in China, with whom he allegedly transmitted secret information. According to the lawyer of the “first department” of Valeria Vetoshkina, the investigation was not able to prove the guilt of the teacher. He refused to admit his guilt.

What exactly is Vorobyov accused:

1. The smuggling of equipment that can be used in the creation of military equipment as part of an organized group (part 3 of article 30 and part 3 of article 226.1 of the Criminal Code) - an episode of a remote control sent to China;

2. Preparation for illegal work for a foreign organization that can obviously be used to create means of delivery of weapons of mass destruction, in respect of which export control is established (part 1 of article 30 and part 3 of article 189 of the Criminal Code) - an episode on the agreement with the Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace;

3. State treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) - an episode on the transfer of classified information to the teacher of the Chinese University.

Dust of special purpose

First, FSB investigators accused the scientist of smuggling. According to investigators, in February 2019, the ex-report of the MAI sent a military remote control to China to check and control aircraft equipment for the defeat of MIG and SU military aircraft. The scientist really sent the parcel, which an anonymous forum user on the Internet asked him, but the security forces detained it in the post office. The examination later showed that the remote control for Soviet aircraft sent by scientists is not an object of export control, and information about it does not contain state secrets. Vorobyov’s defense believes that the request for a package was staged by security forces.

“Initially, the persecution of Alexei began with a provocation by the FSB officers - the“ secret ”agent asked Alexei to send a remote control to China without specifying why it was intended for. The parcel was a remote control with an expired service life - and then the investigation said that this remote control could be used for military aircraft.

Is it worth it to explain that the remote control with the expired service life cannot be used approximately anything?

For this, he was charged with an attempt on the smuggling of equipment that can be used to create other military equipment, ”said Valery Vetoshkin Vorobyova, Vorobyova’s lawyer. “But the investigation went even further - and charged Alexei as part of an organized group of persons.” And the group consisted of it, a provocateur from the FSB and an unidentified person. This hesitated the minimum pair of punishment for 2 years. ”

The next episode, which is charged with a scientist is the conclusion of an agreement with the Chinese company in 2018. “The second composition is“ preparation for the illegal performance of work for a foreign organization, which can obviously be used to create means of delivery of weapons of mass destruction. ” Alexey wanted to provide his students with paid work - and concluded a preliminary technical agreement with Deep Blue Aerospace, the subject of which was the creation of a liquid rocket engine. Then these same students, for whom Alexey tried, testified that this engine can be used to create a mass of weapons of mass destruction, ”the lawyer said.

The most serious accusation of Vorobyov - in Gosizmen - appeared a year after his arrest and multiple refusals to give confessions. During the search, investigators found on the map of the telephone of the scientist photography of the author of the dissertation for modeling a missile engine that has a “secret” vulture.

The FSB claims that in November 2018, during a trip to China, Vorobyov allegedly transmitted this information to the representative of the Harbin Polytechnic University. The main evidence of the prosecution is “dust particles from the Chinese region” allegedly discovered on the memory map. According to protection, Vorobyov photographed scientific work to study at home, and went to China with lectures. Moreover, the lawyers of the scientist found articles with formulas in the Russian State Library (RSL), which the investigation considered the GOST, and introduced them to the case file.

“The accusation of state treason is the worst. Fifteen years for the fact that the investigation did not even prove the fact of the transfer of secret information abroad.

If we explain the legal language, then Vorobyov’s method of committing a betrayal obliges the investigation to prove the fact of the transfer to the third party to the information constituting GOSTain. Instead, the investigation suggested that the memory card, which contained a photograph of a secret abstract, was used in China. It all ended on the assumption, ”said Valery Vetoshkina, lawyer. - And the court pretended that the printed articles from the RSL, which are identical to the “secret” abstract, in the case materials - and made a reservation in the verdict that similar information was not found on the Internet. ”

The defender believes that the tightening of the prosecution is due to the fact that the scientist did not agree to initially make a deal with the investigation: “Unfortunately, the price of“ misconduct ”in Russia is very high - and Alexei paid it in full. The affairs of Alexei Vorobyov should not exist either from the legal or from a universal point of view.

The most ordinary person lived for himself, he devoted his whole modest career to his homeland, and in the end he turned out to be a spy and smugglers. ”

"Secret materials" according to the FSB

“New newspaper. Europe ”got acquainted with the arguments of Vorobyov’s defenders in a cassation appeal (the editorial office is at the disposal). They require the cancellation of the sentence of the court of first instance and the termination of proceedings in this case. Lawyers appeal to the fact that neither the Moscow City Court, nor the first appeal court of general jurisdiction, did not check the proof of evidence of the prosecution and ignored the arguments of the defense. In particular, information from an abstract with the “Secret” stamp can be found on the Internet - in public articles of the same author. As for the particles of Chinese dust, the accusation did not ask the expert if they could get to the memory card if Vorobyov did not get it out of the telephone cover during his trip, and even if he got how to transfer data from a foreign organization from this.

Vorobyov’s lawyers turn to the basic concepts of criminal liability: neither the investigation nor the court established the fact of the transfer of secret data by the scientific data to the foreign side.

In the court’s sentence there is no way in which Vorobyov transmitted this information, as well as his justification of his motives and intent.

In addition, the document states that the scientist allegedly reported classified information from self-interest, but neither the investigation nor the court gave evidence that he received any reward for her.

The defense of the ex-teacher of the MAI also claims that the court did not take into account the provocation that the FSB officers arranged in the episode with the “smuggling” of the remote control for Soviet aircraft to China. According to the text of the complaint, it was the implemented operational employee who hid under the nickname on the Internet forum, that bowed Vorobyov to send a parcel with a military product. Moreover, it was the presence of the “provocateur” and a certain “unknown person” that formed a group of persons who were striking the accusation. According to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), all evidence obtained as a result of a police provocation is unacceptable, so the case against Vorobyov should be dismissed, and all charges were removed.

"The daughter remembered the image of her father from photographs and videos"

When Alexei Vorobyov was arrested, his long -awaited daughter Vara was three months old. Now the girl is three and a half years old, and she can see her father only on dates in the colony. The young wife of the scientist Svetlana is forced to work all day to support the family: the child, and Alexei himself, and his elderly mother. From the MAI, where Svetlana worked with Alexei before his arrest, she was fired - they did not renew the contract.

- Today it is especially very sad, because the cassation court is the last instance, and it is very scary what decision will be made. Because, given the latest events in the country and the refusal of Russia to execute the requirements of the ECHR, the hope for a further positive outcome is diverted. Most likely, there will be no changes, because there were already so many ships - and the unauthorized, or something. But we hope that suddenly something good will happen. There is a hope that the mind will win.

For a month now, while Alexei is transferred, we practically do not communicate. He rarely wrote letters, at first he was in a pre -trial detention center in Belgorod, then in Kursk and for about a week in Moscow, but we have no telephone conversations. In the pre-trial detention center, the “bear” is transmitted for some reason only on Tuesdays and Fridays. When he was in the colony, we managed to talk on the phone almost every day. This is the last six months, and since 2019, when he was in a pre -trial detention center, they saw each other only at the court hearings every two months, and then the escorts were forbidden to exchange. She brought her daughter to the bourgeois court, showed her in the doorway when they extended the content in custody.

It grows in my father’s photographs and videos that I managed to upload to the cloud. So she remembered his image, and when they met, there was a very touching moment.

The first date in a few years we took place on April 11. Alexei’s mother said that Varya was first fastened and hid in the pillow, and then all three days did not leave him. He told her fairy tales, sang songs, they painted, danced, watched cartoons - all that parents usually do, but then it was important for her to be with her dad. And she asked the pope to make porridge. His mother, who was 83 years old, also first fully saw Alexei for the first time in three years, and I, too. We spoke all three nights almost before dawn, it seemed that so little time, and did not want the morning to come.

The last time before, we somehow fully saw each other at the cross-examination in the FSB, where we were invited in order to last a decision for the last time to influence its decision, and as if veiled it was said that the deadline would be just that if it did not give.

Then we had a phrase that it was better to be an innocently convicted for 20 years than to admit that he did not commit.

I do not know where he draws his strength from. Firstly, it has not changed at all, even outwardly, although the prison is greatly changing people-they are aging, but it is not at all. He is so bright, kind, clean. He prays, in the Water Drive, he first went to the temple to take communion, the prison greatly brought him closer to God. They do not have much free time, constantly working in the sewing workshop, does not have time to get bored. Draws and sends his daughter a fairy tale on sheets A4, sometimes reads fiction, can play chess, tries to figure out his criminal case. He is not morally crushed, accepts everything as a test. He understands that if you sit and think that they gave twenty years, you can go crazy. He says that he will live on five -year planes and wait for changes.

We worry about his health. Fibrous changes in the lungs that have been discovered are still not diagnosed humanly. The court decided that he did not need a room in a hospital, although he showed cones in his hands. No examinations, except palpation, were carried out - what kind of neoplasms these are, it is not clear. The same on the jaw. This bothers us all very much, this is some kind of crime.

Even if the court believes that he is guilty, everyone has the right to at least leave prison alive. And here it turns out that they do not give opportunities.

Alexey is very kind, such a peacemaker, stands for peace in everything. They even began to notice that Varechka looked like him in this regard - if she sees a conflict, asks to rather stop quarreling, which very reminds how Alexey was reconciled to us all. He is a diplomatic person, believes that it is better to calmly and patiently withstand the test. These qualities helped him a lot in the pre -trial detention center and now in the colony. For example, he handed out his things to people before the transfer from Lefortovo - who needs it. While he is in prison, he is more worried not for himself, but for us. Varya is waiting for a meeting with dad, rejoices at his calls on the phone, asks him to show himself, thinking that this is a video. She loves to look at our wedding photo, and if she sees that I am paying, he says that dad is very strong and kind, and when he comes to us, he will protect me.

Alexei knows that we love him very much and are waiting for all together. This is the main incentive to fight. He trusts us, humbly trusts our choice of lawyers, actions and other things. He understands that the truth is on his side, which means God will not leave and decide everything when the time comes. He believes that this time will come. But at the same time, he does not give up and fights, writes complaints, draws up lawsuits, reads laws, communicates with other prisoners, gaining experience in the fight against unfair sentences. We are constantly in touch with our lawyers, and this is very important, because Alexei knows that strong defenders help him who are not afraid to tell the truth.

He was again offered to plead guilty after the sentence, so that the duration was supposedly reduced at the appeal. Such proposals have received repeatedly from the very first day of the imprisonment, but this is excluded. It was clear that this is a custom-made case, but why it was Alexey, a simple associate professor, at that time an employee of the MAI, where there are no secret developments or really valuable research work, is still unclear.

The court repeatedly cited evidence of innocence, but they either refused to attach them or were not taken into account when sentencing.

The false testimonies of his colleagues, employees and the leadership of the MAI only confirm these fears, as well as my dismissal with violation of the Labor Code, accompanying the lying report of the “duty unit” about my husband on the federal channel, all this is an answer to our attempt to tell the truth.

Everyone who decided at the expense of my husband to hide his own violations, slandering him, everyone who decided to get new titles will sooner or later receive their own.

Of course, more than anything else I want this mash-cutting machine to stop. So many innocent people are not heard even with a full package of evidence. Neither the FSB investigators nor the courts hear them.

We really want to hope that the court will still hear us. I really want Varechka to grow up with dad, and Aleshina Mom saw her son in the last years of her life as often as she wants. And I will just wait for Alyosha and pray that my beloved and best husband still loves me and believes that I can: help him, grow our daughter and remain a kind person, as he himself could stay even in such cruel conditions.