Russia jails man for 12 and a half years for sending missile parts to US
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The man is said to have smuggled components via Latvia to a US firm based in the US state of Alabama.
PHOTO: AFP
MOSCOW - A court in Russia has convicted a Russian man of treason and sentenced him to 12 1/2 years in jail for sending missile components to the United States at the behest of the US intelligence services, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) named the man as Sergei Kabanov.
He is said to have smuggled components via Latvia to a US firm based in the US state of Alabama which the FSB said was under the control of the US Defence Department, the news agencies said.
Kabanov had smuggled parts used in Russian air defence missile systems and in radar-based weapons systems, the FSB said.
He will serve out his sentence in a maximum security prison colony after being convicted by a court in the city of Tver.
Surveillance footage released via the TASS news agency showed the moment of Kabanov's arrest by FSB operatives. It showed him and another man moving a small wooden crate from one car to another.
TASS also released footage of the moment he was sentenced in court and showed shipping documents and an invoice which the FSB used as evidence in the case against Kabanov. REUTERS
