An IT specialist from Tajikistan has been found guilty of collaborating with the CIA. The Moscow City Court sentenced Tajikistan native Firuz Dadoboev to 13.5 years in a strict regime colony. According to Russian media, Firuz Dadoboev, who holds dual citizenship of Russia and Tajikistan, was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal […]
An IT specialist from Tajikistan has been found guilty of collaborating with the CIA.
The Moscow City Court sentenced Tajikistan native Firuz Dadoboev to 13.5 years in a strict regime colony.
According to Russian media, Firuz Dadoboev, who holds dual citizenship of Russia and Tajikistan, was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The sentence against IT specialist Firuz Dadoboev was announced on October 29, 2024. In addition to the prison term, he was also fined 300,000 rubles.
It is reported that Dadoboev was arrested in October 2022 and has been held in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center since then.
Dadoboev, born in 1977, worked as an IT specialist at one of the capital’s commercial companies. The name of the company has not been disclosed.
He was detained by FSB officers “for attempting to transfer classified data to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.”
It is alleged that he unlawfully obtained information that constitutes a state secret and intended to pass this information to a representative of American intelligence.
It is noted that Dadoboev admitted his guilt and expressed remorse for his actions. The conditions under which he confessed are unknown. The convicted individual, his lawyer, or his relatives are unavailable for comment.
A person with such details is registered on the LinkedIn social network for finding and establishing business contacts, working as the head of the IT department at the alcoholic beverage sales company Elida GROUP LLC. What specific classified information of state importance Dadoboev had access to remains unknown.
This is not the first case in which a native of Tajikistan has been found guilty of treason in Russia. Earlier, at the end of 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced Zokhidov Akhadjon Mahmadjonovich to 15 years in a colony in a treason case. The 36-year-old Zokhidov worked as a taxi driver. He was found guilty under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Treason”) and Part 3 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted arms smuggling).
Also, in October 2023, a 32-year-old Tajik migrant Sharifjon Tillozoz was detained in Moscow. He was accused of espionage in favor of Ukraine.
At that time, it was reported that 32-year-old citizen Sharifjon Tillozoz, a native of the city of Pendzhikent in the Sughd region, was detained on the closed territory of a military unit. Initially, the man was mistaken for a lost worker. However, it later became clear that “he was engaged in gathering information for subsequent transfer to the Ukrainian special services. He photographed military facilities and sent materials to his curators abroad.”
On October 10, 2023, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow held a closed hearing on the prosecution’s request for a measure of restraint in the form of detention for Tajik citizen Sharifjon Tillozoz, who was suspected of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
So far, nothing is known about Tillozoz’s fate.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of cases of treason and espionage in Russia has significantly increased. According to data for the first half of 2024, 52 people were convicted of treason in the country, which is 3.5 times higher than the same figure for the same period in 2023.
Additionally, 18 people were sentenced to prison for espionage in the first six months of this year, whereas during the same period last year, there were only 2 such arrests.