A Colombian citizen has been sentenced to five years and two months in prison in Russia for spreading “false news” about that country’s military campaign in Ukraine, the agency said. EFE.

Alberto Giraldo Saray, who had been in Russia for several years, had been arrested in April 2022 and his work was commissioned by the organization Digital Humanity, which is affiliated with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), vetoed in Russia. since 2012.

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“The court has set a prison sentence of five years and two months in a common regime prison,” the court said, according to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

The investigation shows that in March Giraldo deposited several mobile phones in a Moscow shopping center for mass remote control of messages containing false information about the actions of the armed forces in Ukraine.

Following the investigation, Giraldo’s home was searched and several pieces of evidence were found.