24/08/2021
Briton associated with spying for Russia captured in Germany
A British man has been captured in Germany on doubt of spying for Russia.
German government examiners said the man - named uniquely as David S - worked at the British consulate in Berlin.
He purportedly passed archives to Russian insight "once" in return for an "obscure sum" of cash.
He was captured in Potsdam outside Berlin on Tuesday and his home and work environment have been looked.
A representative for Germany's unfamiliar service cited by AFP news organization said Berlin was taking the situation "genuinely", and said spying by "a nearby collusion accomplice on German soil is unsatisfactory".
The capture was the consequence of a joint UK-German examination, the assertion read.
It was knowledge driven and had been continuing for quite a while paving the way to the capture, the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera says. MI5 and other UK organizations, just as British police, had been working with the Germans to learn however much they could about the supposed action.
London's Metropolitan Police affirmed the capture of a 57-year-old British public in Germany, just as the association of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.
German specialists are accountable for the examination, yet officials will keep on working with German partners, the police said.
The man is expected to show up under the watchful eye of an exploring judge on Wednesday.
Investigators said he was recruited as a nearby staff part at the government office.
German online news webpage Focus Online reports that the archives gave were to do with counter-illegal intimidation, and that the man isn't thought to have strategic resistance.
