Victor Shur
- Criminal Code
- Article 275, Russian Criminal Code
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (strict regime)
- Sentence
- 12 years
- Date of verdict
- 2015-10-06
- Region
- Bryansk Oblast
- City
- Bryansk
- Facility
- ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН по Брянской области»
- Address for letters
- 241004, Брянская область, г. Брянск, ул. Котовского д. 39, ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН по Брянской области», Шур Виктор Валентинович, 1957 г.р.
Case 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
Others charged under Article 275, Russian Criminal Code
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