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Ukrainian Marchenko, convicted in Russia, hopes to be included in 'swap list'
KYIV. Nov 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Marchenko, sentenced to ten years in prison in Russia, allegedly for espionage, is asking President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to put him on the "exchange list," his lawyers told Interfax (Interfax.ru).
"Volodymyr Oleksandrovych, I ask you to add my name to the exchange list. (…) The only thing that supports me is the hope for returning home," his lawyer Yevhen Smirnov quoted Marchenko’s appeal to the agency.
According to him, Marchenko believes that his accusation was fabricated. In addition, the lawyer noted, the Ukrainian says that he has "serious health problems after torture."
Another his lawyer Ivan Pavlov (recognized as a foreign media agent in the Russian Federation), explained to Interfax that Marchenko had not yet formalized his appeal to Zelensky and asked the lawyers to transfer it through the media.
Earlier on Tuesday, Marchenko’s lawyer Andrei Fedorkov told Interfax that the Russian Supreme Court had rejected a cassation appeal against court decisions in the case of the Ukrainian.
On November 26, 2020, the Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Marchenko to ten years in a strict regime colony.
In addition, the court turned to the state revenue the funds allocated by Marchenko, allegedly by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine for the commission of an intelligence action.
Marchenko did not admit his guilt.
The security forces of the Russian Federation claim that in May 2018, Marchenko received an assignment from an employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Petro Khomenko to purchase klystrons in Russia – spare parts used in the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems and funds in the amount of $163,000 to implement the plan. According to the investigation, it was supposed to transfer the state company Ukroboronservis to the Ukrainian special exporter of military equipment through an intermediary firm in Macedonia. In April 2019, Marchenko was arrested.
