Russia: FSB Detains CEO of Hypersonic Systems Research Company in High Treason Case

Russia’s federal security service FSB has detained the CEO, who is also chief designer of the open joint stock company Scientific-Research Enterprise of Hypersonic Systems in a high treason case. A source in the law enforcement said the FSB will ask the court to put the individual under arrest for two months. “In the process of detective and search measures, FSB operatives in Moscow detained the company’s general director, Alexander Kuranov. Investigators plan to ask the court to put him under arrest for two months,” the source said. The press-service of Moscow’s Lefortovo court has confirmed that the investigators’ request…