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Russia’s top court upholds spying sentence for Pole: report

16.09.2019 22:00
Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a verdict sentencing a Polish man to 14 years in a penal colony on charges of espionage, according to news reports.
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The Pole, named as Marian Radzajewski, was in June convicted by a lower court in Moscow after security officials said they caught him attempting to smuggle parts of a Russian S-300 missile system to Poland, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency has reported, citing Russia's state news service Tass.

Under Russian law, such components serve a military purpose and their design is a state secret, the IAR news agency reported.

It cited Russia's FSB as saying earlier this year that the Pole was working for an organisation that is a "supplier for the national armed forces."

Polish diplomats in Moscow have offered no comment, the IAR news agency said.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR