Lawyer Maria Buntzler was asked to serve 15 years in prison in a treason case.
The prosecutor's office asked the court to sentence Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Buntzler to 15 years in prison. This is what Slovo Zhchyta reported, referring to the lawyer Ilya Sidorov, who visited Bunzler in the detention center before the trial.
According to him, the prosecutor's office also asked to give Banzeler a restriction of freedom and a fine of 10,000 rubles.
Initially, the case against the 65-year-old Bunzler was investigated as part of another article - secret cooperation with a foreign country. This article is punishable by three to eight years in prison. Later, the case was reclassified as an article of treason, which carries up to 20 years in prison.
According to the researchers, in 2024, Bunzler was supposed to collect data on security forces "identifying and investigating" criminal cases against people "collaborating with an unfriendly country." In addition, it was claimed in the investigation that the lawyer transferred information about criminal cases to "special services of an unfriendly country", which she received "through her practice as a lawyer".
Maria Bunzler is known to protect defendants in political cases. She was arrested at the end of May 2025, and has since been under prejudicial arrest. According to OVD-Info, Benesler was diagnosed as a result of hypertension with heart damage, accompanied by blood pressure and high risk of stroke. In June 2026, the defense reported that Booneler was nearly dead in the isolation department "for lack of consistent drugs prescribed to her.".