The Russian pensioner has appealed to him in prison for espionage for aggressor and storing explosives / day
Now the case will have to be seen in the Riga Regional Court. The hearing is scheduled for November 6 at 1:30 p.m.
It has already been reported that the accused has left the USSR armed forces to live in Latvia.
According to the accusation, the man has obtained publicly available information on Latvian political processes, critical infrastructures and military sites around Riga Airport, namely, on the airport itself, the repairs carried out on its territory, the construction of hangars, and observed the area of the 17th Battalion.
He handed over the information obtained to the Russian intelligence agent, traveling in person to Kaliningrad. However, it was difficult to determine the amount of specific information transmitted, given that espionage has taken place in a long time and the accused has gone to Russia in person.
Similarly, a blasting briquette was found in his garage – one 975 grams of hexogenic briquettes and four trotyl briquettes with a total weight of 759.4 grams, as with 136 cartridges.
The prosecutor asked the man to impose imprisonment for eight years and supervision of probation for two years in the court debate. The court also sentenced this penalty.
It has already been reported that the National Security Service (VDD) was detained by a Russian citizen on 20 December 2023. Criminal proceedings against this person were initiated a few days earlier on December 18. The VDD carried out investigative activities in five objects related to this person in Riga and its surroundings.
In May 2024, the service handed over the case to the indictment.
The Latvian courts have watched several criminal cases initiated by the VDD in recent years for espionage in the benefit of Russia and Belarus. For example, the Court of First Instance has sentenced former Saeima deputy Jan Adamson for espionage to Russia for eight years and six months.
The Court of First Instance lit the Adamson for the commission of four criminal offenses, including the acquisition of foreign property with a decent, the acquisition and possession of firearms ammunition without the relevant permission, punishing for eight years’ imprisonment, probation monitoring for two years. for three months.
By partially counting the sentences imposed, Adamson was subject to a final penalty of eight years’ imprisonment and six months with probation supervision for two years.
In the same case, a Russian citizen, a former KGB employee, Gennady Silonov, was sentenced by the court for imprisonment for seven years and six months, with probation supervision for two years.
The judgment is appealed and is located in the Riga Regional Court.
In another case last autumn, the Court of First Instance was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for the taxi driver Sidorov for espionage in Russia and supervision of probation for two years. The judgment was appealed.
In the fall, he was charged in another case of espionage for Russia. The mother of Alexander Dubjago is also accused in the case of collecting unprecedented news for Russia. Alexander Dubjago walked with the Russian flag at the Occupation Monument in Pardaugava on May 10, 2022. The criminal proceedings were initiated against these actions against Dubjago and even spent some time in custody for some time, but later the National Security Service closed the case.
