Taganrog resident sentenced to treason

A 19-year-old Taganrog resident, accused by the FSB of having ties to Ukrainian intelligence, has been sentenced to 6 years in a penal colony.

Caucasian Knot" wrote that in July, the Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Sergei Maklakov to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony, finding him guilty of collaborating with Ukrainian special services.

The Rostov Regional Court found a 19-year-old Taganrog resident guilty of providing Ukrainian intelligence with information about the actions of the Russian armed forces. The defendant was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony, according to a statement from the regional FSB of Russia.

"A Taganrog resident contacted employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine via Telegram and offered to provide information about deployment of military units and facilities in Taganrog and its environs," Interfax quotes the agency's press release as saying. The verdict has not entered into legal force and has been appealed by the prosecution, RAPSI clarifies.

According to a source in law enforcement, this is Nikolai Chernetsky, who acted for "ideological reasons." "He committed the crime at the age of 17 - he had just finished school and did not have time to enroll in a university. He fully admitted his guilt," the Kommersant-Rostov source noted.

It should be noted that the court found the Taganrog resident guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), which provides for a maximum punishment of up to twenty years in prison.

Recall that at the end of June, Mikhail Komkov, a resident of Novorossiysk, was convicted of treason. The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced him to 14 years in prison on charges of collecting information about local military units for Ukrainian special services.