The Moscow City Court condemned haven Colonel Vladimir Lazar to 12 years in despotic regime jail and detriment of arrange for espionage for a United States, a Federal Security Service pronounced on Thursday.
“In a march of rough and legal investigation, it was determined that former a miltary officer, portion in a military-technical dialect of a ubiquitous domicile of a high command, haven Colonel Lazar, behaving on a orders of American troops view Lesment, acquired and upheld on a poignant apportion of topographic maps and images, containing information deemed to be of state tip nature,” a FSB said.
The prosecutor’s bureau pronounced in Apr that Lazar had bought some-more than 7000 electronic images of topographic maps from a Russian gourmet that he afterwards took to Belarus where he upheld them to Lesment around an intermediary. Lesment afterwards upheld them to a Pentagon.
Lazar certified his guilt. The limit chastisement for such offences is 20 years. The date of his judgment entrance into outcome has not been disclosed.