VLADIVOSTOK. Aug 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Major Valery Sarkisyan, an employee of the Makarov Pacific Ocean Naval Institute, has been sentenced to a term of two years in prison and deprived of the right to hold a state post.
The Pacific Fleet Tribunal has found Sarkisyan guilty of divulging classified state information, the Pacific Fleet headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
"The state was represented by Colonel at Law Viktor Grunin, Deputy Judge Advocate of the Pacific Fleet," the headquarters said.
Sarkisyan was an employee of the research and development laboratory, tasked with developing missile and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) systems for naval aviation, thus, he was privy to classified state information. Investigators have found that the officer made a copy of a classified thesis on a personal floppy disk. Sarkisyan held the disk in his private possession.
In September 2002 he handed the disk over to a certain citizen for a certain sum of money, thus, divulging classified state information to the person in question.
According to investigators, in February 2003 Sarkisyan received a total of $1,500 for this information from the aforementioned person. Later on he used the money to buy a personal computer and relevant hardware.
The source also said that at the present time the person mentioned above was a defendant in a criminal case, being heard by the Maritime Territory Court of Law.