Details are top secret, but a Russian news portal said Anatoly Maslov, 76, was suspected of handing secrets to China. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia - The criminal trial of a prominent Russian physicist accused of state treason opened in St Petersburg on Thursday amid tight secrecy and concerns over the health of the elderly defendant.
The case, marked as “top secret”, is closed to the media and public, the St Petersburg court has said.A source close to Maslov told Reuters the scientist had suffered two heart attacks and spent time in hospital since his arrest last June in Novosibirsk. Maslov was a professor and researcher at the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, one of Russia’s top scientific centres.
Doctors in the pre-trial detention centre have not given Maslov access to all the medication prescribed by his normal physician, the source said, adding: “He’s holding on, but of course, his condition isn’t very good.”All three defendants are
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