Valentin Danilov

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1999 In 1999, he (Danilov) has signed a contract between the KSTU and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. KSTU was supposed to make a test bench used to emulate effect of space on man-made satellites.
2002-2003 On February 2001 Danilov was arrested by FSB, accused of espionage, but released on bail October 2, 2002. He was acquitted by a jury of all charges on December 29, 2003.
2004 Many scientists and human rights organizations, both in Russia and worldwide protested the sentence because the information he (Danilov) passed to China was, in fact, declassified in 1992.
According to a statement by Amnesty International, "as in the case of Igor Sutyagin, his first trial ended in acquittal, the court concluded that the prosecution had not established violations of the law by Valentin Danilov.
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