The Moscow City Court found Alexander Shiplyuk, Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, guilty of treason. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 1 year and 6 months of restricted freedom. He was also fined 500,000 rubles.

The prosecutor's office requested 20 years in a maximum security prison and 2 years of restricted freedom for the scientist. The case is classified as "secret", so the court only announced the operative part of the decision, TASS reports.

The details of the case are officially unknown. According to one version, the scientist's arrest may be related to the transfer of information about hypersonic weapons abroad.

Alexander Shiplyuk was arrested in August 2022. He is the head of Laboratory No. 5 "Hypersonic Technologies" and is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, a specialist in the field of high-speed aerogasdynamics and experimental methods for studying gas flows. Since 2007, he has lectured at the Novosibirsk State Technical University.

In addition to him, in the summer of 2022, two more physicists from the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok were arrested on suspicion of treason - the chief researcher of the same institute Anatoly Maslov (sentenced to 14 years) and the head of the laboratory of quantum optical technologies of the Novosibirsk State University, a researcher at the Institute of Laser Physics SB RAS Dmitry Kolker (he died during the investigation, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation did not see signs of a crime in his death).