Dmitri Kolker, specialist in lasers died in a hospital in Moscow Anatoli Maslov was placed in detention in Moscow for “High betrayal”.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
Dmitri Kolker, 54, a Russian scientist specializing in lasers, doctor of physics and mathematics died two days after being arrested by security services agents (FSB), for charges of spy, announced his family, Sunday July 3.
m. Kolker died on Saturday at dawn, in a Moscow hospital where he had been transferred from a prison in the capital, indicates his family who has Published on social networks the message of the authorities . Alina Mironova, her daughter, wrote on the
dad died tonight. According to the telegram, he was admitted to the hospital on July 22, where he died at 2:40 a.m. The Hospital’s intensive care unit confirmed this information. It is a great tragedy for our family.
The 1 July, a Novossibirsk court, a major city of Siberia, announced that Dmitri Kolker had been arrested and placed in pre -trial detention for two months. He was accused of a crime under article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“High betrayal”), writes the agency Tass , a crime liable to 20 years in prison.
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His family says he was arrested by FSB agents in a Novossibirsk clinic where he was treated for terminal pancreatic cancer, then transferred to Moscow, despite his state of health. “The FSB killed my father, they knew in what state he was, but they took him out of the hospital. Thank you my country !!! his family did not even have permission to say goodbye” , wrote Sunday Maxime Kolker on vkontakte .
accused of working for China
Dmitri Kolker headed a laboratory on “quantum and optical technological”, according to the site of the state University of Novossibirsk. According to his son, he was suspected of espionage after giving lessons at an international conference in China.
During this conference, according to his son, Dmitri Kolker was permanently accompanied by an FSB agent to avoid any dissemination of sensitive information. In Russia, scientists are regularly accused of spying and convicted in sometimes very controversial cases.
The TASS agency reported on Saturday that another researcher, anatoli Maslov , had been arrested in Novossibirsk and placed in detention in Moscow for “High Tresh”, suspected of having delivered classified information on hypersonic technology.