Maria Bonzler in court Kaliningrad lawyer 65-year-old Maria Bontzler faces up to 20 years in prison. In the final indictment, the investigation tightened the article, replacing “confidential cooperation with a foreign state” (275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) with treason (275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Bonzler is one of the few lawyers in the Kaliningrad region who was not afraid to take on clearly political cases.