The FSB reported the arrest in a case of «treason» of an employee of the «central apparatus of one of the supervisory bodies», who «proactively passed information to the Ukrainian side about the works being carried out to protect industrial and energy facilities in the border areas of the Russian Federation, as well as about the locations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation».
According to «Mediazona»*, it concerns a Rostekhnadzor employee Arsen Mnatsakanov, last week the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow decided on his arrest.
The 45-year-old Mnatsakanov was an advisor in the department of licensing activities of the central administration of Rostekhnadzor. On social networks, he indicated that he graduated from the Moscow State Law University named after Kutafin.
On the Rostekhnadzor website in 2010, when Mnatsakanov worked in the Moscow department of the agency, his declaration was published.
In leaked databases, the Moscow resident was associated with an email on «Yandex», in the name of which the full name of Julian Assange was used. The man had another email address, which he used for registration on «Gosuslugi». This same address was in the data leak of Alexei Navalny's supporters** in 2021.
* Recognized in Russia as a «foreign agent».
** Included in the list of «terrorists and extremists».