MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th July, 2020) The investigators asked the Lefortovo court in Moscow to arrest Ivan Safronov, an adviser to the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the spokesperson for the court, Kseniya Pervovlasenko, told Sputnik.
The Federal Security Service said earlier in the day that Safronov was suspected of handing classified defense information over to a NATO special service. Roscosmos said the detention was unrelated to Safronov's work for the space agency.
The director general of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, has not been invited for questioning on this case, Roscosmos spokesman Vladimir Ustimenko told Sputnik.
"We are working as usual. Rogozin is at work," Ustimenko said.
