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Russian Professors Sentenced for Selling Bulava Secrets to China

Russian Professors Sentenced for Selling Bulava Secrets to China 21.06.2012
Text: Lenta.Ru
Photo: Test launch of SLBM Bulava. globalsecurity.org
St. Petersburg City Court gave sentence to two professors of Baltic State Technical University (Voenmech) founded guilty of espionage for China. Yevgeny Afanasiev got 12.5 years of close confinement, and Svyatoslav Bobyshev – 12 years, reports Interfax.

According to a source in security agencies, the teachers were charged of providing China with secret information about submarine-based ballistic missile Bulava and its developer, Moscow Thermotechnics Institute. According to investigators, the accused persons being on working trip in China in May-June 2009 handed over classified information to Chinese intelligence service for pecuniary reward.

Bobyshev and Afanasiev were arrested in March 2010. The professors declined to admit their guilt. As for them, the lectureship trip to Harbin was approved by a special board.

The teachers faced the trial behind closed doors. In 2010, the scientist-advocating public committee said the arrested professors "victims of spy phobia".

Recall that in May 2012 an employee of defense-oriented enterprise Alexander Gniteyev was sentenced to 8-year long confinement for transfer of Bulava secrets to foreign intelligence. The country he used to spy for was not named.

Ballistic missile Bulava is launched by Borei-class strategic nuclear-powered submarines. It is supposed to be put in service in the coming fall.

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