Vorobyov Aleksandr Vladimirovich
Case Information
Case Description
In Moscow in July 2019, 39-year-old Alexander Vorobyov, a former assistant to the presidential envoy in the Urals Federal District, was detained on charges of treason. Russian Security Council meetings were allegedly the reason for the criminal prosecution. The country for which the official allegedly spied is not officially reported. For the duration of the investigation, the man was placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. On April 14, 2021, the Moscow City Court found Alexander Vorobyov guilty and sentenced him to 12.5 years in a strict regime penal colony. Also, the court deprived the defendant of the class rank of "Actual State Adviser of the Russian Federation of the 3rd Class. On November 8, 2021, the First Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction left the sentence unchanged.
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