The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow sent the Belarusian citizen and director of the Minsk company "Aviation Manufacture" Valery Zyazyulin to a pre-trial detention center, reported "Mediazona"* citing the court's press service.
Zyazyulin is accused of illegal export of arms from Russia: transferring goods or technologies, weapons or military equipment to a "foreign person," as well as illegally performing work for a "foreign person." The sanctions of this article provide for a real term of up to seven years.
The company "Aviation Manufacture," headed by Zyazyulin, is engaged in "processing metal products using the main technological processes of engineering." Details of the case against Zyazyulin are unknown.
Initially, an administrative protocol was drawn up against the man under the article on petty hooliganism and he was sent on May 29 to arrest for 13 days. According to the protocol, the day before around six o'clock in the evening, Zyazyulin was swearing on the street in the center of Moscow.
He did not plead guilty and said that he "was detained by FSB officers under other circumstances and taken to the Basmanny District Police Department." This practice is increasingly being used — law enforcement initiates administrative arrest for a minor offense to prepare materials for a more serious charge.
* Recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia.