Safronov had not even worked at Roscosmos for a couple of months when, on a summer morning, he was detained at the entrance of the same house on Nizhegorodskaya Street, from the window of which his father allegedly voluntarily threw himself down. Ivan was charged with high treason for communicating with a Czech colleague. Alexander Chaban, one of the most brutal employees of the First “spy” department of the FSB, was appointed investigator in his case.