The former Defense Secretary of the United Kingdom from July 2019 to 2023, Ben Wallace, has been charged by Russian authorities with the crime of publicly calling for terrorist acts against Russia, TASS reported.
“The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has approved the indictment in the criminal case against Ben Wallace, former Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” a statement from the Prosecutor General’s Office reported. “He is charged in absentia with committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activity made using information and telecommunications networks, including the Internet).”
TASS continued: “According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, investigators believe that at a public session of the Warsaw Security Forum 2025, held in Poland in September 2025, Wallace made statements that ‘contained calls for terrorist activities, including by providing Ukraine with long-range missile weapons to enable strikes on the Crimean Bridge with the aim of creating conditions unfit for the civilian population to live in the territory of the Republic of Crimea… Since Wallace is evading investigation, he has been placed on an international wanted list. The court has issued a pretrial detention order against him in absentia’… The charge under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code carries a penalty ranging from a fine of 300,000 to one million rubles (about $4,000-$14,000), or an amount equivalent to the defendant’s income over a period of three to five years, to imprisonment for a term of five to seven years.”
The criminal charges against Wallace are minimally a shot across the bow of arrogant British authorities, or possibly a harbinger of more to come.
