Arrest of 3 suspects of espionage against Ukraine in Germany

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “De Sight” publication, three men were arrested in the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on charges of collecting information for a foreign secret service in Germany. The German federal government announced. Based on this, three defendants who are from Armenia, Russia and Ukraine are in custody. Germany’s top prosecutor did not say which service they worked for.

These people are accused of traveling to Germany on behalf of a foreign secret service to gather information. . Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that they searched a cafe in Frankfurt am Main where they allegedly aimed to find a person from Ukraine.

Based on this information, the three suspects were temporarily arrested on Wednesday by the investigators of the criminal police department of the state of Hessen and presented to the investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice on Thursday. He issued arrest warrants for all three.

There have been several suspected cases of espionage in Germany in recent months. In April, Maximilian Kera, an employee of the leading candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany party for the European elections, was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. That same month, federal prosecutors arrested three Germans on similar charges. Action was also taken against two men who were allegedly spying for Russia and preparing acts of sabotage. According to published information, the two people arrested in Bayreuth were Germans from Russia.

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