For 16 years of penal colony, he sentenced a programmer with Belgian and Russian citizenship to a court in the Pskov territory of western Russia for transferring money to a erstwhile girl in Ukraine," Nowaja Gazieta reported today.
Mikhail Łochczyń was detained erstwhile he came to Russia to visit his sick father in the summertime of 2025. The safety service searched his telephone where correspondence and Ukrainian contacts of the ex-girlfriend's household were found.
Last August, he was charged with treason. According to his household and lawyers, he was beaten and tortured. According to the ASTRA Channel on Telegram, he signed a message of confession in the hope that this would contribute to the simplification of the sentence.
Łochczyński left Russia in the late 1990s. He worked in the IT manufacture in Luxembourg and Germany. In letters from Russian detention he wrote that he did not follow events in Russia and did not realize how his visit to his father could end.
– I lost the best occupation in the world, lost all my money and investments, lost my apartment. I regret that I went – he wrote to journalists.
APW, PAP
