Posted on 03/15/2022 8:32:06 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
PRAGUE -- Slovak authorities have broken a Russian spying network that was operating on Slovak territory, officials said on Tuesday.
Stefan Hamran, the country’s chief police officer said four Slovak nationals have been detained in the case with two of them facing spying and bribery charges...
“We’re talking about serious cases,” Lipsic said. “It’s about a long term, paid cooperation with the Russian military intelligence service" (known as GRU).
The two are accused of seeking out and gathering highly sensitive, strategic and classified information about Slovakia, its armed forces and NATO and handed them over to undercover GRU officers who were based at the Russian Embassy in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, in exchange for money, Hamran said. He said such a case has not been known in Slovakia before.
Lipsic said the suspects received tens of thousands euros (dollars) from the Russian spies.
“The information the Russian intelligence service was looking for also involved Ukraine,” Lipsic said. He didn’t elaborate at a news conference in Bratislava.
...Slovakia’s Foreign Ministry announced it was expelling three Russian diplomats following its assessment of information from the country’s intelligence services on possible spying and bribery.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
How Russian diplomat recruits a spy
"I told Moscow you are such a good boy"
"I need political information, communication within NATO..."
What’s to spy on in Europe, considering that they don’t have a military?
Oh the horror. I learn something new everday that nations spy on each other. I would never have believed it /s
I went to the site, not sure what Prague has to do with the story. Must be an ABC News office in Prague (Czechia)
If anything, Vienna is a lot closer to Slovakia than Prague.
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