Case of the admirals

01/12/1948 former Commander-in-Chief of the Navy - Deputy People's Commissar (then Minister) of the Armed Forces of the USSR Admiral of the Fleet of the USSR Kuznetsov N.G. together with a group of admirals (L.M. Galler, V.A. Alafuzov and G.A. Stepanov) he was presented to the Court of Honor of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the USSR. The accusation was that in 1942-1944. without the permission of the Government of the USSR, they handed over to Great Britain and the United States secret drawings and descriptions of a high-altitude parachute torpedo, a remote grenade, several naval artillery systems, fire control schemes, as well as a large number of secret nautical charts. The Court of Honor found them guilty and decided to petition the Council of Ministers of the USSR to bring the perpetrators to trial by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.