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An engineer at a defense enterprise was sentenced to 15 years for passing data to the enemy
On the prosecution of the Mykolaiv Specialized Defense Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern Region, the court found the chief design engineer of one of the defense enterprises guilty of treason. He was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Prosecutors proved that in July 2024 the 58-year-old resident of Mykolaiv region, supporting the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine, voluntarily agreed to cooperate with a representative of the aggressor state. For secrecy, communications were conducted via the Telegram messenger and a specially configured digital message exchange channel with an automatic message-deletion feature after reading.
During August–September 2024 the convicted person carried out tasks assigned by the Russian Federation’s representative and transmitted information about the locations of air defense units, servicemembers of the special transport service, and other military formations.
In addition, he reported information about the deployment sites of military equipment, ammunition depots in Mykolaiv city and region, as well as about critical infrastructure facilities and the fulfillment of defense state contracts at one of the enterprises of the defense-industrial complex.
The transmitted data could have been used by the enemy to plan missile and drone strikes and to undermine the region’s defensive capabilities.
The court found him guilty under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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