[4] The state claimed that the group had sold 13 laboratory reports[6] related to space rocketry, to the Chinese company, and that the technology served a dual use which could undermine the secrecy of Russian weapon systems and, potentially, to build nuclear missiles.
[7] Finally, the defense stated that the shadow corporations were legitimate subcontractors required to complete the manufacturing work called for in the contract.
[7] Mikhail Ivanov, cofounder and deputy chair of TsNIIMash-Export,[5] was charged separately after affirming that the information sold in the contract was not top secret.
[10] The APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists lobbied on behalf of Reshten, saying that "the charges against him appeared related to what would be considered routine scientific cooperation between research institutes in two countries".
[11] On 21 July 2018, FSB raided offices of TsNIIMash and Roscosmos Research and Analytical Center and arrested ten employees suspected of passing classified hypersonic Russian missile technologies to Western intelligence agencies.