Moscow hands missile scientist 15 year jail sentence for treason
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Alexander Shiplyuk, the latest member of a Russian team that worked on hypersonic weapons technology to be prosecuted, is given 15 years for sharing state secrets.
A Russian court has convicted a physicist who worked on hypersonic weapons technology of treason.
The Moscow court issued the verdict against Alexander Shiplyuk in a closed-door trial on Tuesday, ordering him to serve 15 years in a penal colony, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. He is the latest member of his team that worked on the military technology to be prosecuted.
The court also fined Shiplyuk 500,000 rubles ($5,650) and sentenced him to an additional 1.5 years of restricted freedom,” said TASS.
Few details regarding the charges brought against Shiplyuk, who headed the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, have been revealed.
Russian media reported that he was accused of passing information to foreign officials on hypersonic technology, cutting-edge weapons capable of carrying payloads at up to 10 times the speed of sound to punch through air defence systems.
