MOSCOW, July 14 (AVN) - The Military News Agency learned the details of the detention of Lieutenant-Colonel Sergei Avramenko, former junior research assistant of the Defence Ministry 30th central scientific and research centre, who was indicted by the Moscow military district court for state treason.
According to a well-informed source, a Latvian citizen helped the Russian law enforcement to trace the traitor. Back in May 1996 Avramenko came to Latvia and brought seven photo films imaging state secret documents. He wanted to sell them off to foreign states representatives. But then he left the idea of selling and put them in a luggage office cell at the railway station in Riga.
Later those films were taken by one of the station employees. One of them he used for taking pictures in leisure. Having developed it, he came to realise that it had a previous image and contained secret data about Russia's Air Force. In spring, 1997 the Latvian citizen handed these films to the Russian Embassy in Riga. After that the detention became just a matter of time.