A Yekaterinburg resident accused of treason was found hanged in his home.

According to investigators, the 47-year-old Vasily Raskov "He was collecting information about military-strategic facilities in the Sverdlovsk region and military-technical data." FSB officers detained him at the border with Kazakhstan while he was allegedly attempting to smuggle two specialized radio stations abroad.

Raskov spent several months in pretrial detention, but then, due to a serious illness, was released under house arrest.

Today's Telegram channel "Prison Lawyer" сообщилthat Vasily Raskov died - according to preliminary information, he was found hanged.

The number of criminal cases for treason has increased sharply since the start of the war with Ukraine: last year alone, 224 people received prison sentences under this article (another 139 were imprisoned for espionage and confidential cooperation with foreigners). This significantly exceeds the number of people convicted under this article between 1997 and 2021—170 over 14 years.

Arrests on suspicion of "treason" continue. Last week NotMoscow Reported, that the resident Khabarovsk Andrey Zelenov, suspected of treason, complained of torture.

A resident of Yekaterinburg is among those charged with treason. Ksenia Karelina: She received 12 years for the fact that, while living in the United States, translated $51 to a Ukrainian foundation that raises money to help civilians and military medicine.

A student of the pedagogical university from Tomsk Tatyana Laletina for a transfer of $20 to the Ukrainian fund received 9 years in prison.