Russian ex-army officer jailed for spying
December 8th, 2011 - 7:53 am ICT by IANSMoscow, Dec 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A retired Russian Army major has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for spying for Georgia.
Vladimir Klenkov passed classified information concerning the location of Russian military units in the Southern Military District to Georgian intelligence services, investigators alleged.
The North Caucasus district court Wednesday convicted him of high treason and stripped him of his rank of retired major.
This was the second conviction in a case of espionage concerning Georgia in recent months.
In October, Sr. Lt. David Aliyev and his mother Irina Aliyeva were sentenced to 10 and eight years in prison respectively.
Aliyev, deployed to a military unit in Russia’s Southern Military District, was found to “have been collecting secret information on orders from Georgian intelligence services”. His mother was convicted of conveying the information to Georgia.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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