A court in Narva, Estonia, sentenced Pavel Kapustin, a Russian citizen living in this city, to six and a half years in prison with confiscation of property worth about 90,000 euros.
The Estonian State Prosecutor’s Office accused Kapustin of espionage, providing false information to an administrative body and violating sanctions.
“Pavel Kapustin deliberately entered into contact with the Russian FSB special service, collecting and transmitting the necessary information to the Russian special services… The security police found that people living in Russia had ordered sanctioned luxury goods from Kapustin who, in turn ordered them from Estonia, Europe, and other regions of Narwa. He then organized the transportation of these goods from Estonia to Russia,” – said the court.
“Regardless of the method of transmission or the content of information, even the mere establishment of a connection with Russian special services against Estonia is a crime, which can lead to a long prison sentence,” said State Prosecutor Triinu Olev-Aas.
Violating sanctions is an indirect support for Russia’s illegal actions, and the state must take it seriously. As a result, the defendants received at least 90,000 euros in criminal proceeds, which were confiscated by the court at the request of the public prosecutor’s office.
