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RIA Novosti: Swedish court rules to keep suspected Russian spy in custody

30/ 03/ 2006


A Swedish court ruled Thursday that a Russian national suspected of espionage should be remanded in custody.

Lindstrand gave no details on the damage allegedly caused by the detainee, but said his activities could have a negative effect on Sweden's security and defense capabilities. SAPO is still refusing to unveil either details of the investigation or which country the suspect was allegedly spying for.

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Kommersant: Zamyatnin’s Arrest Extended

Apr. 03, 2006


Andrey Zamyatnin


There are lots of strange things in Zamyatnin’s case. Even though all information is kept secret, some conclusions could be made. Despite the leakage, which was intentional, perhaps, whereby all accusations root not in research activities of the scientist, but in some other mysterious actions of Russia’s biologist, a raft of his colleagues were interrogated, his working place was thoroughly searched and the hard disc of his computer and some files were withdrawn.

Russia’s scientists in Uppsale University of Agriculture, where Zamyatnin had worked, attempted to express their views through the central newspapers of Sweden. But the local media dropped the topic as if by someone’s command

According to interviews, Zamyatnin was targeted at research and had no time for anything else, he never received any data that could be called secret and he was living from salary to salary, borrowing from his friends.

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RIA Novosti: Charges dropped against Russian scientist in Swedish spy scandal

22:04 - 07/ 04/ 2006


Police detained 30-year-old Zamyatnin, working as an assistant at an agricultural university in Uppsala researching plant viruses, on February 15. A court ruled to remand him in custody on three times. Sweden's counter-espionage service (SAPO) said the researcher was being held on suspicion of spying for a certain country, but is still refusing to unveil either details of the investigation or which country Zamyatnin was allegedly spying for.

Earlier, a local newspaper quoted Swedish Chief Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand as saying that Zamyatnin's activities could have a negative effect on Sweden's security and defense capabilities.

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ITAR-TASS: Russian researcher returns from Stockholm to Moscow

15.04.2006


Russian researcher Andrei Zamyatin will fly from Stockholm to Moscow on Saturday.

Zamyatin’s lawyer Ola Salomonsson told Itar-Tass, “The prosecutor called me on the phone this morning and said he could not bring in an indictment and so he stops the preliminary investigation.” “The Prosecutor’s Office has not collected enough evidence,” Salomonsson added. Zamyatin was released on Friday morning. The Russian ambassador and consul met him at the gates of the Kronoberg detention facility where he had been kept since the moment of detention in the middle of February.

Zamyatin has been working in Sweden as a guest specialist for four years, conducting virology studies at Uppsala Agriculture University’s Institute of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics.

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MosNews: Sweden Ordered to Pay Compensation to Russian Scientist Cleared of Espionage Charges

09.11.2006


The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has ordered his government to pay 80,000 Krona ($11,000) to Andrei Zamyatnin, a Russian biologist who was jailed for two months on espionage charges earlier this year.

The 29-year-old scientist received a $200,000 Swedish grant last year to spend four years in the country to research how to protect potatoes from viruses. Zamyatnin received the money after defending his thesis at Moscow State University’s Beloyzyorsky Institute of Physical and Biological Chemistry, said his father, Alexander Zamyatnin.

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