He died in prison Dimitri KolkarThe head of the Quantum Optical Technologies Laboratory at Novosibirsk State University, who was arrested last Thursday Fraud. The agency reports Tas. Officers ofFsbOn June 30, people from the Russian intelligence service arrested him and took him to the hospital, where the 54-year-old scientist was hospitalized. Died of cancer; The court sent him to a Moscow prison. Lefertovo.

On social networks, Dmitry Kolkar’s son Maxim said that his father was accused of “providing data containing state secrets to the People’s Republic of China.” Dmitry Kolkar, the owner of several patents and the head of a famous research center, gave lectures at a university in China: but, at the special request of the “security guard” who was with him, his son clarified that they were conducted in Russian. The scholar’s presentations were “certified” by the FSB before each lesson.

“All reports on international conferences are certified in special departments, that is, they do not contain state secrets. An FSB officer accompanied him everywhere, flew with him to China and forbade him to speak in English.”