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Mikhail Trepashkin before another hearing...

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Former FSB lieutenant colonel, now lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, is accused of disclosing state secrets. The trial in the Moscow District Military Court is held in closed session; journalists are not allowed in. All participants in the trial were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement regarding the investigation materials. The only one who refused to sign such an agreement was the defendant himself. Through prison mail (for obvious reasons, his defense lawyers cannot help him with this), Trepashkin managed to pass some of his notes to the outside world.

Before telling about their content, let us recall exactly what the former FSB officer is accused of.

"FOR WRITING MEMOIRS"

"In the period from 1993 to 1997, having access to documents and information containing state secrets," the indictment states, "Trepashkin... systematically removed from the buildings of the Russian state security agencies... official documents... secretly... copied operational and analytical information of the USB (Directorate of Internal Security. — Ed.) onto his personal diskettes not registered in the established manner." He did this "to achieve his own goal: the disclosure of state secrets, as well as when filing complaints against the actions of FSB RF officials, at meetings with journalists and TV presenters, for writing memoirs..."

However, the indictment contains no information that he disclosed state secrets in communication with journalists or while writing memoirs. Judging by the indictment, the only person to whom Trepashkin disclosed this secret was his colleague, former FSB Colonel Sh.

In addition, explains that there is using secret in filing complaints against the actions of FSB officials." Although not difficult to guess, Trepashkin conducted an operation into the exposure of a Chechen group that extorted Moscow commercial together with bandits GRU officers after which Trepashkin accusing him of the operation voluntarily.

Then Mikhail, his former boss, presented to the court documents testified: the leadership to the lieutenant colonel and won the case avoiding a tribunal.

And also Trepashkin that in his apartment they found 15 cartridges.