Russian Scientist Allegedly Sold Satellite Secrets to China


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	Russian Scientist Allegedly Sold Satellite Secrets to China By Interfax posted: 03:07 pm ET 18 April 2001

KRASNOYARSK (Interfax) - The Federal Security Service (FSB) department for the Krasnoyarsk region (Siberia) is accusing Krasnoyarsk physicist Valentin Danilov of spying for China

KRASNOYARSK (Interfax) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Krasnoyarsk Region (Siberia) accused Krasnoyarsk physicist Valentin Danilov of spying for China.

Danilov, an employee of the Krasnoyarsk State Technical University, signed a contract with a Chinese import-export company for the production of a testbed and software for studying electrical processes.

According to information gathered by investigators, Danilov tried to sell a device that can model the complex effects of outer space on satellites.

The scientist has been kept in custody since February 16.

Danilov's colleagues showed their support for him on Wednesday. Over 20 scientists working at Krasnoyarsk universities and the Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences wrote an open letter to the prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in which they asked him to review the case and release Danilov from custody.

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The scientists say the secret classification had been lifted from the devices mentioned in Danilov's contract with the Chinese company in 1992. All research under this contract "could have been done on the basis of materials available in open publications," Danilov's colleagues said.