High treason

Russian spy jailed for treason over Swedish job letter

A court in Moscow has sentenced a Russian former intelligence radio engineer to 14 years in prison after he wrote to a Swedish company looking for work.

Gennady Kravtsov was found guilty of state treason and sent to a maximum-security prison colony at a hearing on Monday. The judge said Kravtsov had passed information that included state secrets to another government, adding that the defendant had promised not to reveal this information when he served in Russian intelligence.

“According to polygraph results, Kravtsov concealed his contacts with a foreign government,” the ruling said, according to the news agency Interfax.