According to BlockBeats, on September 19, according to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, an unidentified Russian man was arrested on suspicion of treason for sending cryptocurrencies to the Ukrainian armed forces on the streets of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia’s Far Eastern city. These cryptocurrencies were sent to the Ukrainian military for the purpose of “buying weapons, ammunition and uniforms.” Russia’s top intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), shared a video of the arrest on Wednesday. The video depicts several agents rushing out of the car and pressing the man to the ground with his hands behind his back, and then he was handcuffed, detained and interviewed.
It is unclear what sentence the man might receive if found guilty. However, two weeks ago, physicist Alexander Shiplyuk was sentenced to 15 years in prison for “treason” for sharing classified information with German intelligence at an overseas conference in 2017 while working on Russia’s hypersonic missile program.
