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| 29.10.200713:50 (GMT) | Military court in Moscow sentenced today Major Sergei Yurenya to seven years in prison for spying for Poland, news agency RIA Novosti reports, referring to investigators in the Federal Security Service (FSB). The criminal case against the Russian officer, who was stripped of his rank, was initiated in March 2007 and passed on for court hearings in August
According to the FSB sources, the Russian major had been recruited by Polish security agencies in 2005-2006, and had subsequently provided them with intelligence on military units in the Moscow Military District, an area covering some 700,000 square kilometers in central Russia.
Investigators also said Yurenya had also made attempts to infiltrate into the FSB, Russia's main domestic security body. RIA Novosti cites military prosecutor, Ramil Shakurov, who said that Yurenya "was arrested while performing a new Polish assignment to infiltrate into FSB ranks". Shakurov has added that had pleaded guilty of treason during the investigation and no major damage had been caused to the country's security by Yurenya’s activities, according to the news agency.
AIA reported earlier that in September, four Belarus officers deemed to be spying for Poland have been sentenced from 7 to 12 years in prison by the Belarusian Supreme Court. The story exposing a supposed network of spies was given in a program on the Belarusian national TV ONT on July 15. The Belarusian KGB arrested five individuals on July 13, whom it called spies working for the Polish authorities. Four of them were Belarusian citizens and the fifth was a Russian officer, Sergei Yurenya.
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