The Barnaul Garrison Military Court sentenced Major Mikhail Zhilin, an employee of the Federal Security Service (FSO) Special Communications and Information Center, to 6.5 years in a strict-regime colony for desertion. On this subject informed NGS.RU with reference to the press service of the court.
The press service reported that on September 27, the serviceman, “not wanting to perform military service, fearing to be sent to the zone of a special military operation”, deserted and left Russia. He was convicted under the articles “Unauthorized abandonment of a unit or place of service” (part 3 of article 338 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and “Illegal border crossing” (part 1 of article 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The verdict has not yet entered into force.
In the middle of December became It is known that Mikhail Zhilin, a resident of Novosibirsk, was arrested for 40 days in Kazakhstan for illegally crossing the border. His wife, Ekaterina, told reporters that her husband worked for 18 years at the SFO Special Communications and Information Center in Novosibirsk. When the partial mobilization was announced in Russia on September 22, the family decided to leave Russia. At the same time, Zhilin was forbidden to leave, since he has access to state secrets.
As a result, Ekaterina and her children entered Kazakhstan legally, and her husband crossed the border into the forest. Later, border guards stopped the Zhilins’ car and found that Mikhail had no marks when crossing the border.
The Russian Interior Ministry put Zhilin on the wanted list, and on December 30 he excluded from Kazakhstan.
