The man was arrested already in 2021 in Germany and in April of this year he was extradited to Great Britain. The trial has now begun as the 58-year-old stands accused of collecting intelligence and leaking classified documents to a foreign power, Russia, during his eight years as an employee of the British Embassy in Berlin.
The man wrote that he confessed to spying for Russia and faces up to 14 years in prison BBC.
The 58-year-old was exposed to a joint An effort by the German and British security services who have been following it for months. According to the prosecutor, the man sold information to a Russian military attache. These include, among other things, the identities, addresses and phone numbers of various British officials. Some of the material has been classified as “confidential” and relates to the activities of the British government and its German embassy.
When the man was arrested, the police found 800 euros (about 9,000 SEK) in cash at his home in Potsdam.
According to the prosecutor, the man was motivated by an intense hatred of Great Britain and anger at supporting the LGBTQ movement, such as raising the rainbow flag in public. The man also says that he wanted to move to Russia or Ukraine.
His attorneys say the prosecution exaggerates motives, and that it is instead a question of dissatisfaction rather than espionage.
— The man’s defense attorney, Matthew KS Ryder, said: Watchman.
The penalty will not be determined until February of next year.
The British man is one of several People who have recently been exposed as suspected of spying for Russia.
in A 45-year-old man was recently arrested in Norway who worked at the University of Tromsø in northern Norway. He claimed to be a Brazilian academic, but the Norwegian Security Police suspect that he is indeed Russian spy.
He is believed to be the first of the so-called “sleeper agent”, or illegal agent, to be discovered in the Nordic countries.
The charges were brought in Sweden on Friday Two brothers charged with aggravated espionage. The brothers are suspected of disclosing information over a period of ten years to Russia and the GRU secret service. Among the evidence are records of gold transactions and large sums of money. One of the brothers previously worked in the security police.
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