Russia: High Treason Wrap for Man Who ‘Sent Crypto to Ukraine Military’
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Russia’s top intelligence agency has accused another citizen of “high treason,” claiming that he used crypto to send funds to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Per the newspaper Izvestia, the Federal Security Service (FSB)’s Khabarovsk Krai branch arrested an unnamed man on the street in Komsomolsk-on-Amur this week.
FSB officers say the man sent an unspecified amount of crypto to wallets controlled by the Ukrainian military.
The FSB’s regional office released a video showing agents in military camouflage and balaclavas arresting the man on a quiet street.
The officers then forced the man into an unmarked van and took him to the agency’s local station. The video then shows an FSB agent interviewing the man.
The suspect’s face is blurred in the video, and the agents’ voices are disguised.
“We have stopped the illegal activity of a resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He was involved in committing high treason by providing financial assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in activities directed against the security of the Russian Federation.”
Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a city in Khabarovsk Krai, is located on the bank of the River Amur in Russia’s Far East.
The FSB said they had detained the man. And they explained that the man “used cryptocurrency to transfer” his own “personal funds” to Kyiv.
The agency claimed that the Ukrainian military used the man’s donations to “purchase weapons, ammunition, and uniforms” for Ukrainian soldiers.
Officers said they were set to charge the man with breaches of Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code: “high
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