MOSCOW, September 23 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court has sentenced the Moscow State Technical University’s lecturer Vladimir Lapygin to 7 years in high-security prison for treason, RIA Novosti reported on Friday.

Case materials have not been disclosed because of secrecy.

The academic was arrested in May 2015.  Reportedly, he was on the staff of the Central Research Institute for Engineering Technology (TsNIImash), the head research company of Russia's federal space agency (Roscosmos), and worked at the university concurrently.

According to investigation, Lapygin has conveyed certain technological information abroad.