High Court has rejected this Monday the appeal of two Russians and Ukrainians accused of espionage, thus Mikhail Zorin, Svetlana Timofeeva, arrested at the Gramsci weapons factory and their Ukrainian friend, Fedir Alpatov, will remain in jail until the end of the investigations. 

The three "spies" addressed the High Court, appealing the decision of the Durrës Court of Appellate, but the highest level of the judiciary did not accept their request for a milder security measure. 

The Russians and Ukrainians accused of two charges, that of "Provision of information" and "Assault due to duty", will be investigated under the measure of prison arrest. 

However, the three foreigners were caught after they attacked 2 security guards with neoparalyzing sprays in the Gramsh plant in August.

By the end of August 2022, Albanian Court ordered two Russians and the Ukrainian to remain in custody while authorities conduct an espionage investigation into the suspects’ activities at a former military weapons manufacturing plant.

Judge Pajtime Fetahu ruled in favor of prosecutors, who requested that the trio be kept in detention over accusations of “securing secret information of military or any other character in order to be supplied to a foreign power, which violates the country’s independence.”

But Fetahu, who presides at a court in Elbasan, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Tirana, dropped another more serious charge of actually providing any of the information they collected to a foreign country.

At the time, the hearing was held behind closed doors, and no details were given on why the suspects may have been interested in the site.