Top Russian Hypersonic Missile Scientist Arrested On Treason Charges
The institute’s scientific director Vasily Fomin told Russian news agency TASS that Sipliuk was sent to the Lefortovo detention center in Moscow. His detention follows the June 27 arrest of the institute’s chief researcher, Anatoly Maslov, who is suspected of passing on state-secret data related to hypersonic missiles. According to the institute’s website, Shiplyuk heads a technological laboratory with unique wind tunnels specially built to simulate supersonic conditions. On June 30, the Sovetsky District Court of Novosibirsk arrested another scientist, Dmitry Kolker, a researcher at the Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences....