Moscow: A Russian court today sentenced an engineer to nine years in jail on treason charges, in the latest of a spate of secretive trials in the country.
Moscow city court found Maxim Lyudomirsky a former top engineer at a firm making navigation systems used in some military hardware guilty of treason and ordered him to be incarcerated in a high-security prison.
"Maxim Lyudomirsky has been convicted today on the charge of (treason)," a spokesman for the Moscow City Court told AFP, referring to the charge by its number in the Russian Criminal Code.
"He has been sentenced to nine years in a strict penal colony," he added, refusing to give any further information as the case was classified as "secret".
In footage on the website of Russia's Life News, a sullen-faced Lyudomirsky was shown standing in the glass cage in the court.
According to a scientific journal of Moscow's Bauman University which published an article by Lyudomirsky, he was head engineer of Elektrooptika, a Moscow-based company specialising in laser technology and a defence contractor involved in developing artillery systems.
The engineer is the latest in a string of people to be found guilty of treason, espionage or disclosing state secrets since Russia's relations with the West slumped to a post-Cold War low over the crisis in Ukraine.
Earlier this month the same court convicted an ex-police officer for allegedly spying for the CIA.
Moscow city court found Maxim Lyudomirsky a former top engineer at a firm making navigation systems used in some military hardware guilty of treason and ordered him to be incarcerated in a high-security prison.
"Maxim Lyudomirsky has been convicted today on the charge of (treason)," a spokesman for the Moscow City Court told AFP, referring to the charge by its number in the Russian Criminal Code.
In footage on the website of Russia's Life News, a sullen-faced Lyudomirsky was shown standing in the glass cage in the court.
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The engineer is the latest in a string of people to be found guilty of treason, espionage or disclosing state secrets since Russia's relations with the West slumped to a post-Cold War low over the crisis in Ukraine.
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