21 January 2016

Vladislav Nikolsky faces up to 25 years in prison

Russian sailor Vladislav Nikolsky formally charged with treason. It is reported by «Fontanka» According to investigators, espionage was conducted in the interests of Ukraine. The criminal case against 69-year-old retired military initiated in October 2012. Currently the trial is nearing completion.

According to media reports, the FSB imputes Vladislav Nikolsky damage to the state in the amount of 0 thousand. This is the likely amount of the fee for the transfer of classified documentation. Events unfolded in April and November 2011. This is the SMS, sent to Ukraine. Investigators say that Nicholas received from the chief of the technical documentation Vyacheslav Rodionov documents on landing craft air cushion «Zubr» in print. Then the sailor digitize them in his apartment and set up two electronic mailboxes on mail.ru and yandex.ru named «Rose» and «Slap». On mail servers Nicholas uploaded 10 thousand. Sheets with information about the ship. After that, according to investigators, Nicholas sent an SMS with a password from the boxes, which will soon have watched with Ukrainian IP-addresses. During a search of the apartment found a thousand military. And electronic media documentation «Bison." Digitization of secret information for transmission abroad is increasingly being used around the world, said the chief editor of the portal «Agentura.ru» Andrei Soldatov.
«Given the example of Snowden, is obvious to everyone that with the help of electronic media can take any number of documents. Much will depend on the expertise of: roughly speaking, whether proven in court that these documents constitute a state secret. Much will depend on political will, because that now, in principle, you can try to accuse a person of espionage simply on the grounds that he passed the documents, «- said» Kommersant FM «soldiers.

According to the lawyer Nikolsky, retired military does not recognize guilt. Actions qualified as contraband — cross-border movement of documents that can be used to create weapons and military equipment. The accusation of espionage came after investigators found documents in the catalog of standards for warships, secret in the mid-2000s. If the ex-soldier is found guilty, the punishment for treason is harsh, I’m sure the lawyer «Khrenov and Partners» Roman Belanov.

«Apparently, the investigation has enough evidence demonstrating that the person has committed a crime. If this information is true, then I would have predicted that the sentence could be guilty. Most likely, it will go to the article» treason «because that article, «Espionage» means a crime by a person not a citizen of the Russian Federation. In any case, sanctions, and in one, and in another very large — a term of imprisonment of 20–25 years, «- said Belanov.

Earlier, a military sailor from St. Petersburg, Dmitry Ivanov, was convicted for attempting to pass classified material of one of the NATO countries. The court sentenced him to a long term of imprisonment and deprived of military rank.