The Government of Germany sees from the country of Russian diplomat on suspicion of espionage, reports German magazine Der Spiegel.
According to the report, we are talking about an employee of the Consulate of the Russian Federation in Munich, according to the publication, it was announced to a person of non grants. It is assumed that the man was accredited as a diplomat, in reality he, they consider in Germany, is an employee of the Russian external intelligence service. He is associated with the business of Russian Ilnura N., who is suspected of espionage in Germany in favor of Russia, writes magazine.
On the eve, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Germany reported that he blamed the Russian citizen Ilnur N. in espionage. According to the investigation, before the detention, he worked as a researcher at the University of Scientific and Technical Department in Bavaria, Interfax writes. The prosecutor’s office found that the most later in September 2019, Russian external intelligence has established contact with him, and he agreed to spying. In Germany, it is believed that representatives of the CVR were interested in, in particular, the stages of the development of the Ariane space rocket of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian research developments. For the reported information, Russian received 2.5 thousand euros, considers the investigation.