the charge of adviser to the head of Roskosmos and journalist Ivan Safronov stated that he used to transmit secret information like passwords, borrowed from fragments of the book of the historian Roy Medvedev, “a Journey through the Yeltsin era” in English. This was reported “Interfax” the lawyer, Ivan Pavlov.
According to him, from the decision about attraction of the person as a defendant implies that he passed information from a home computer. The FSB revealed that the journalist used the encryption tools the program VeraCrypt.
on 5 August it was reported that the foreign intelligence Service (SVR) was spying on Safronov at least since the autumn of 2019. According to the FSB, there are two intelligence reports, dated September 2019 and March 2020. It follows that an employee of the Czech intelligence service, which allegedly collaborated Safronov has special training and involved in the activities of foreign intelligence agencies, and collected and transmitted by the journalist information was available to foreign intelligence services. The charges not specified this information is not provided the identity of an employee of the Czech intelligence service.
Ivan Safronov was detained on July 7 and arrested for two months. The FSB claim that he was recruited in 2012 by the Czech secret service, on the instructions of which he allegedly gave it to the representative in 2017 information constituting a state secret. Safronov pleaded not guilty.
