Three men, a Russian, a Ukrainian and an Armenian, were arrested in Frankfurt, the German federal prosecutor’s office announced on Friday June 21. They are suspected of having spied on a person from Ukraine on behalf of a foreign service.
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The three suspects were in Germany on behalf of a foreign secret service, in order to collect information on a person from Ukraine », Writes the German federal prosecutor’s office, in a press release. Questioned by AFP, he did not want to specify the country with which the alleged spies were collaborating.
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“ The Ukrainian Robert A., the Armenian Vardges I. and the Russian Arman S. were arrested on Wednesday in Frankfurt and presented to a judge on Thursday who ordered their incarceration », Specifies the press release. On Wednesday June 19, the three suspects went to a cafe in Frankfurt (central Germany) where their target was supposed to be, writes the German federal prosecutor’s office, based in Karlsruhe.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, numerous espionage cases involving Russia were discovered in Germany. A former German secret agent is currently on trial in Berlin for having transmitted classified information to the Russian security services (FSB) in the fall of 2022, an accusation he categorically rejects. In Germany, more than a million Ukrainians have found refuge since the Russian invasion.
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