Victor Shur
Victor Shur, born 1957, Bryansk Oblast. Charges: Article 275, Russian Criminal Code (Treason against the state); “Victor Shur's case”. Sentence (October 6, 2015): 12 years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since February 1, 2024; place of detention: Penal colony No. 2, Bryansk Oblast.
In brief
Bryansk Oblast · Bryansk · Entrepreneurs
Sentence
12 years
imprisonment in a strict regime colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 275, Russian Criminal Code — Treason against the state
Full wording of the charges
received an assignment from the State Border Guard Service (SBS) of Ukraine to photograph a military facility in Russia and obtained photographic equipment for this purpose; on the same day, he crossed the border between Russia and Ukraine by car through the Novye Yurkovichi MRBCP (multilateral road border crossing point), arrived to the the location of the military unit 41101-3 in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region and "collected information regarding unit 41101-3 that constitutes a state secret, i.e., committed high treason in the form of espionage" (took several photographs of the military airfield).
Latest event
October 6, 2015 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 12 years.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 12 years
· Persecution begins
Victor Shur's case
Criminal case
Victor Shur's case
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Facility: Penal colony No. 2, Bryansk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
241004, Брянская область, г. Брянск, ул. Котовского д. 39, ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН по Брянской области», Шур Виктор Валентинович, 1957 г.р.
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Full summary
He lived in the Bryansk region, but in recent years, after he was widowed, he settled in Chernihiv to help his elderly father. At the time of his arrest, he was a Russian citizen with a Ukrainian residence permit. Shur's father is a well-known collector of icons. Shur himself is a jeweller and entrepreneur, who studied to be a diamond cutter.
On December 9, 2014, Shur was detained at the Novye Yurkovichi multilateral road checkpoint in Bryansk region, accused of hitting a police officer. He was arrested for 15 days. However, he was then charged with treason.
Relatives claim that he was tortured, after which he refused a lawyer hired under the agreement and signed a confession. In addition, according to the relatives, Shur was promised that if he confessed his guilt, he would be given a small sentence.
According to the investigation, Shur was commissioned by the Ukrainian Border Guard Service to "collect information constituting a state secret", namely to take several photographs of a military airfield abandoned in the 1980s.
On October 7, 2015, Viktor Shur was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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