Personal Information
- Birth date
- 26 мая 1962 г. (63 years old)
- Special circumstances
- scientist
- Notes
- he worked at the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, he is charged with creating two inventions - a "safety-executive mechanism of the detonator" and a "directed action warhead" - the patent for which is owned by the nuclear center
Ilin Viktor Eduardovich
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- Detention date:
- 1 июн. 2022 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 275 CC RF
- Sentence:
- 9 years strict regime
- Estimated release date:
- 1 июн. 2031 г.
- Case categories:
- Treason, War-related
Case Description
In early June 2022, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 60-year-old scientist Viktor Ilyin, a former employee of the Federal Nuclear Center, was detained." He was accused of treason. He took an oath of allegiance and completed the task by photographing and filming vulnerable areas of a social infrastructure facility in Syktyvkar for sabotage. It is claimed that he planned the crime for several years and "developed a closed channel for transmitting secret information. The court placed the scientist in a pre-trial detention center. On May 23, 2023, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court found Viktor Ilyin guilty and sentenced him to nine years in a strict regime colony. The verdict was not appealed and entered into legal force.
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