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Two people have been detained in Spain and Germanythose accused of carrying out tasks of espionage for the Russian intelligence services in proceedings carried out by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Spanish Police.
According to the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which is leading the operation, a 45-year-old Romanian woman was arrested in the city of Rheine, in northwest Germany, while the operation in Spain focused on a 43-year-old Ukrainian man, detained in Eldain the province of Alicante.
These two supposed spies had as target a German citizen who supplied drones to Ukraine and other related components.
The Ukrainian, identified as ‘Sergei N.’, was arrested on February 17 by Spanish agents in compliance with a European arrest warrant.
For her part, the Romanian woman, identified as ‘Alla S.’, was arrested last Monday in Rheine by operatives from the special forces of the Police of the western federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and members of the Regional Criminal Investigation Office of Bavaria, a region in southern Germany.
Both are “suspected of having worked for a foreign intelligence service”, according to the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which also reported that the authorities carried out home records of those detained.
Same goal
According to the arrest warrant, the Ukrainian spied in Germany on behalf of Russia on a person who sent drones and parts for the manufacture of drones in Ukraine.
The detainee he would have gathered information he found on the Internet about the person whom he spied on and did videos from his workplace, a task after which he left Germany to go to Spain.
On German soil, starting in March of this month, The Romanian citizen replaced him, who would have continued the espionage work of the person the Ukrainian followed.
“He went to the person’s registration address and recorded the place with his mobile phone. It is suspected that these espionage activities were aimed at preparing new operations by the intelligence services against the person,” according to the prosecutor’s statement.
On Wednesday ‘Alla S.’ He will be brought to the judicial disposal of the Supreme Court magistrates, who will decide whether he will be in preventive detention.
The authorities responsible for the investigation, including the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the name given to the intelligence services of the Ministry of the Interior in Germany, are awaiting the transfer of the Ukrainian to bring him to justice.
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