A prominent Russian scientist has died of terminal cancer two days after being arrested and removed from a hospital bed on espionage charges, his family said on Sunday.
Dmitry Kolker, 54, died early Saturday in a Moscow hospital where he had been transferred from the capital’s prison, authorities said in a statement posted by his son Maxim Kolker on the VKontakte social network. Two days ago, the court of Novosibirsk, a large city in Siberia, noted that Dmitry Kolker was arrested and detained for two months.
According to this source, he was accused of “.high treason“and”a spy“for”foreign country“A crime punishable by 20 years in prison. His family says he was arrested by security service (FSB) agents at a clinic in Novosibirsk where he was being treated for terminal cancer and then flown to Moscow despite his health.
Conference in China
“FSB killed my father, they knew his condition, but they took him out of the hospital. Thank you my country!!! His family was not even allowed to say goodbye to him.Maxim Kolker wrote on VKontakte on Sunday. Dmitry Kolker, a laser specialist, doctor of physics and mathematics, ran a laboratory “quantum and optical technologiesreports the website of Novosibirsk State University.
According to his son, he was suspected of espionage after teaching at an international conference in China. During this conference, according to his son, Dmitry Kolker was constantly accompanied by an FSB agent to avoid divulging any sensitive information.
In Russia, scientists are regularly accused of espionage and convicted in sometimes very controversial cases.
Source: Le Figaro
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