2024-05-28 09:55:28
The Dusseldorf court docket admitted that the accused Thomas H., who was working within the procurement service of the Bundeswehr on the time of the crime, had given secret info to Russia on his personal initiative.
The 54-year-old ex-soldier pleaded responsible through the trial, claiming that he hoped to get info from the Russians in change that may assist him get his household to security in time if the present struggle Russia has launched in opposition to Ukraine escalates right into a nuclear struggle.
He’s anxious that the switch of heavy armaments to Ukraine might contain Germany within the struggle as effectively.
In line with the indictment, Thomas H. rephotographed previous coaching paperwork associated to ammunition varieties and plane expertise and dropped these supplies right into a mailbox on the Russian Consulate in Bonn.
In Might 2023, the accused contacted the Russian consulate normal in Bonn and the embassy in Berlin, providing his cooperation.
“He handed on the knowledge obtained in the midst of his skilled exercise to the Russian intelligence service,” the indictment reads.
This is only one of a number of espionage instances which were found in Germany since Russia’s repeated invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
2024-05-28 09:55:28