MOSCOW. Nov 17 (Interfax) - The results of a psychological and psychiatric evaluation of journalist Ivan Safronov, who has been charged with treason, show that he does not suffer from any mental disorder, an informed source told Interfax.
"The conclusion indicates that Ivan Safronov does not have any [mental] deviations or disorders," the source said.
Safronov's evaluation was carried out by the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, he said.
Interfax does not yet have comments on this issue from investigators and Safronov's defense team.
Safronov, who is also an advisor to the Roscosmos head, faces treason charges. He was detained on July 7 and was remanded into custody.
According to his defense lawyers, investigators believe that Safronov was allegedly recruited by a Czech special service in 2012, provided its official in 2017 with secret information on the supplies of weapons and the Russian Armed Forces' actions in African countries and the Middle East. Investigators insist that the end recipient of this secret information was the United States.
Safronov denies any wrongdoing and believes his criminal case is related to his journalistic work.
Before his job at Roscosmos, Safronov worked as a journalist for the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, specializing, in particular, in defense industry issues.