MOSCOW. April 23 (Interfax) - The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) will enforce the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling to transfer scientist Viktor Kudryavtsev, 75, who is arrested on the charge of high treason, to a public clinic, as long as the relevant documents are forwarded to the detention facility, FSIN Deputy Director Valery Maksimenko said.
"No documents regarding Kudryavtsev, including the ECHR's ruling, have yet not been filed to the Lefortovo detention facility. As long as they are obtained, we will consider them and make a decision," Maksimenko told Interfax on Monday in reply to a relevant question.
The oversight service has always fulfilled all the ECHR's rulings of the kind, "there were no any problems with that," he said.
The ECHR ruled to provide Kudryavtsev, a 75-year-old employee of the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIIMash), with medical treatment not associated with the penitentiary system and "take him to a public hospital for a medical examination and treatment," lawyer Ivan Pavlov told Interfax last week.
The Russian authorities are due to notify the ECHR of enforcing its ruling regarding Kudryavtsev before May 6, Pavlov said.
The FSIN will receive a proposal to enforce this Strasbourg court ruling, the press service of the Russian Justice Ministry told Interfax.
As reported, the scientist's defense went to the ECHR due to a critical condition of his health.
Kudryavtsev has been charged with high treason (Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code).
According to Kudryavtsev's defense, the criminal case is over the handover of classified information in two emails in March and October 2013 from the city of Korolyov to Brussels' von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, with which TsNIIMash was cooperating on the FP7-SPACE program.
Ivan Pavlov, the scientist's lawyer, told Interfax that investigators believe Kudryavtsev received assignments from the von Karman Institute "that allegedly went beyond the framework of the [TsNIIMash] project he was in charge of" and sent reports on research "that could be used in the creation of new weapons."
A Roscosmos specialist found that the messages contained secret information, Pavlov said.
Kudryavtsev has denied any wrongdoing. His lawyers said that he had not had access to classified information for over 20 years, that the FP7-Space program had been approved by the government, and that reports on it had been released to the public.
Pavlov told Interfax in mid-November that Kudryavtsev refused to take a plea deal: he had been offered mitigation of his measure of restraint in exchange for pleading guilty and giving testimony incriminating his student and colleague of high treason.
Kudryavtsev's arrest was reported on July 22, 2018 when members of the Public Monitoring Commission found him at Lefortovo. He is the oldest detainee there.