MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow's Dmitrovsky Court has rejected a plea filed by lawyers of former special services officer Mikhail Trepashkin, who was sentenced to four years in prison for disclosing a state secret, which asked for all charges against their client to be dropped, Trepashkin's lawyer Valery Glushenkov told Interfax on Thursday.
The court also refused to return another case against Trepashkin on charges of illegal possession of weapons to the prosecutor to correct inaccuracies.
The next hearing is scheduled for December 19.
On May 19, the Moscow District Military Court convicted Trepashkin on charges of disclosing a state secret and illegal possession of ammunition and sentenced him to four years in prison.
According to Trepashkin's lawyers, their client passed a document containing information on a person involved in the October 2002 terrorist attack at Moscow's Dubrovka theater to another former special services officer. Trepashkin wanted his acquaintance to hand this document over to the Federal Security Service.
On September 13, the military panel of the Russian Supreme Court upheld the Moscow court's verdict and ruled that the sentence was justified.