The Second Western District Military Court sentenced Alexander Derkunsky, a businessman from Rostov-on-Don, and Yevgeny Tarutin, a former employee of a research institute in Kursk, to real terms in the case of stealing technology from the Ministry of Defense. This was reported by Kommersant.
Derkunsky was sentenced to nine years in a strict regime colony, and Tarutin to eight years. They were both found guilty of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).
According to investigators, Tarutin, while working at the Kursk Research Institute of the Russian Defense Ministry, handed over the results of research to the second person involved in the case. Derkunsky, according to the security forces, using this information, organized abroad the mass production of a “fundamentally new technology” originally developed for the needs of the Ministry of Defense: a software and hardware complex for data recovery.
He carried out sales through the Warsaw company Rusolut — among the buyers were both commercial companies and employees of foreign intelligence services. At the same time, Derkunsky also owned the DZ Consulting company in Rostov-on-Don. As City N wrote, both of his enterprises worked with lost information, including on faulty storage devices. At the same time, the only product sold by Resolut was a data recovery device.