The Tomsk Regional Court sentenced 67-year-old physicist Alexander Lukanin to 7.5 years in a strict regime colony in a case of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Kommersant-Sibir with reference to the press service of the court.
The Lukanin case became known in October 2020, then human rights activists found the scientist in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow. Relatives of the physicist did not know where he was for several days.
The details of the case are classified. A TASS source claimed that Lukanin was suspected of trying to transfer Russian technology to China. =»1″ />«A Good Electronics Specialist». What is known about the Tomsk physicist Alexander Lukanin, who was detained by the FSB for transferring technology to foreigners
The scientist's acquaintances described him to Mediazone as «a good specialist in electronics.» The topic of several reports and articles with his participation is the change in the properties of materials under the influence of current discharges. Probably, after retiring, Lukanin worked in China.
A friend of the physicist Nikolai Krivopalov told MBKh Media that the scientist was invited to Shenyang University, where he worked in the laboratory and “was engaged in high-voltage power supplies and spark destruction of solid materials» and related topics.