But he was arrested last year by Russia’s
Federal Counterintelligence Service, known as FSK, allegedly for
sending a letter to a Swedish engineering company seeking work. In 2013,
when the FSK first questioned Kravtsov, it was told by the former GRU
engineer that his letter to the Swedish firm contained no state secrets.
Additionally, Kravtsov was not found to have received any funds from
the Swedes. But the counterintelligence agency returned to arrest
Kravtsov in 2014, claiming that a polygraph test he had taken showed
that he had shared classified material with foreign agents. According to
Russian government prosecutors, Kravtsov gave the Swedes information
about Tselina-2, a military radio surveillance system designed to detect
the location and activity of radio-emitting objects from space.
Kravtsov was convicted
of state treason and stripped of his GRU rank of lieutenant colonel. He
was sentenced on Monday to 14 years in a maximum-security penal colony.
The judge said that he had violated his promise not to reveal
information about his GRU-related work to foreign government officials.
His lawyers, however, complained that the case had been held completely
behind closed doors and that they had not been permitted to call
witnesses or examine material that was central to the case.
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