Russia Has Caught Its Second Spy With A Chinese Surname In A Week

The case is top secret.

On Monday, September 22, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow registered a case in its database to extend the arrest term of a man with the surname Chizhen, who is accused of espionage, RBC reports.

According to RIA Novosti, the man taken into custody is a foreigner. His case is being held under "top secret" and there is no information about the details of the charges, as well as the place of detention of the defendant. The hearing in Chizhen's case will be held on September 25 in Moscow.

The case is being considered by a judge of the Lefortovo court. It is not known when exactly the arrest took place. Earlier information about the detainee, who is charged with Article 276 of the Criminal Code (espionage), was not published. According to the provisions of the Criminal Code, the defendant faces imprisonment in a penal colony for 10 to 20 years, and if the crime was accompanied by damage on a particularly large scale or committed by a group of persons, the defendant may receive life imprisonment. The article also provides for fines of up to several million rubles.

September 15, "Kommersant" reported on the appearance in the Lefortovo court's file cabinet of a record of the arrest of a foreign citizen Wan Y.C. The case category indicated that the court was considering a petition to extend the period of detention in a criminal espionage case. The case was also labeled "top secret," recalls The Moscow Times.

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