The Leninsky District Court of Penza arrested a local resident born in 1986 in the case of treason (275 of the Criminal Code), the court's press service reports.
The message does not provide any details on the criminal case. The Penza resident will remain in custody until May 19.
The FSB reported on the detention of a Penzyak man on suspicion of treason the day before. According to the department, “in the process of communicating” with a representative of Ukrainian intelligence, he “expressed his readiness to provide assistance to Ukraine against the security of the Russian Federation,” and then transferred the personal data of Russian military personnel to the Main Intelligence Directorate.
The Leninsky District Court of Penza announced the arrest of another defendant in the treason case on March 15. The Investigative Committee claims that in 2023, a 57-year-old man repeatedly “collected and through the Telegram messenger transmitted to representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine data on an enterprise of the military-industrial complex fulfilling state defense orders.”
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