posted 07-07-2020 09:09 AM               

Roscosmos said in a statement (in Russian) that former journalist Ivan Safronov's arrest was not linked to his current job there.

Russia's FSB security service said he was suspected of espionage for a NATO country, RIA news agency said.

...Safronov joined Roscosmos as information adviser to director general Dmitry Rogozin in the middle of May.

The space agency said it was helping investigators with their inquiries.

posted 07-07-2020 12:59 PM               

Ivan Ivanovich Safronov (16 January 1956 – 2 March 2007) was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant. He died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building. His apartment was on the third floor. There are speculations that he may have been killed for his critical reporting: the Taganka District prosecutor's office in Moscow initiated a criminal investigation into Safronov's death, and in September 2007, officially ruled his death a suicide.