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Russian researcher invents new solar battery, gets 3yr suspended sentence

Accepted submission by bitshifter mailto:reu2cv@yahoo.com at 2015-07-19 11:18:57
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Dmitry Lopatin, a 26-year-old scientist who invented a cheap new kind of solar battery, has come across an unexpected obstacle. He was slapped with a three-year suspended jail sentence, for using banned materials in his invention. The researcher was facing 11 years behind bars, but the prosecutor’s office dealing with the case agreed that a suspended sentence would suffice, the TASS news agency reported.

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