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Marchenko Aleksandr Vladimirovich

Date of birth: October 11, 1971 (54 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  276
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  10 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 3 года в тюрьме
Date of sentencing:  November 26, 2020
Current location:  Prison of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Krasnoyarsk Krai

Marchenko Aleksandr Vladimirovich, born October 11, 1971 in the city of Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian SSR. Before his arrest, he was unemployed, had no criminal record, and permanently resided in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine.

He was arrested in Russia on February 18, 2019, on suspicion of committing an administrative offense. On November 26, 2020, he was sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of committing a crime under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Espionage").

He was taken into custody as part of a criminal case on May 1, 2019.