The adviser to the pinnacle of Roscosmos and former journalist Ivan Safronov, who’s now within the Lefortovo pre-trial detention middle, who was arrested within the case of treason, was remoted in a quarantine cell on account of suspected coronavirus. This was introduced on Monday, July 27, by the chief secretary of the Public Monitoring Fee (POC) of Moscow, Alexei Melnikov.
“The POC members visited Lefortovo and found out that Safronov had a sore throat. According to the instructions, in such cases, the prisoner is immediately tested for coronavirus and placed in a quarantine solitary confinement cell, ”TASS quoted Melnikov as saying.
He additionally mentioned that Safronov will keep there till the outcomes of the evaluation are acquired.
Safronov was detained on July 7 in Moscow. In accordance with the investigation, he had been recruited by the Czech particular providers since 2012, and in 2017 he was allegedly given a process and transmitted to the Czech Republic knowledge on army cooperation between Russia and the Center East.
The FSB opened a prison case beneath Artwork. 275 of the Legal Code of the Russian Federation (“High treason”). Safronov didn’t admit his guilt.
The Lefortovo court docket in Moscow arrested him till September 6.
On July 16, Safronov was visited by the chief secretary of the Moscow Public Monitoring Fee (POC) Alexei Melnikov. He mentioned that the arrested individual was glad with the situations of detention, and the Lefortovo staff handled him pleasant and with out aggression. Whereas beneath arrest in a pre-trial detention middle, Safronov give up smoking and browse the books of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Ivan Safronov beforehand labored as a journalist for Kommersant and Vedomosti. His appointment as an advisor to the pinnacle of the state company “Roscosmos” was introduced in Might.