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3 men charged with treason in Russia for helping US secret service

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3 men charged with treason in Russia for helping US secret service

Authorities in Russia have charged three men with treason after it was alleged that the accused men cooperated with US intelligence services to disseminate delicate information concerning the former Soviet Union.

According to a lawyer representing one of the three accused, the trio Ruslan Stoyanov and FSB officers who specialised in cyber security, Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev were arrested late last year, adding that the charges were likely to carry between 12 and 20 years of prison terms.

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“My client, along with the others, has been charged with state treason and cooperating with US intelligence services,” Pavlov told Reuters news agency in a telephone interview.

According to the Russian news agency TASS, the Kremlin rejected speculation that the arrested FSB officers were complicit in hacking attacks during the US presidential election.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin was aware of media reports about the arrests but that the Kremlin could not confirm anything about them.

 

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