An employee of a company that worked for the Bundestag is said to have handed over files to a secret service employee in the Russian embassy.
Charged.
Berlin - The Federal Prosecutor's Office has brought charges for allegedly passing on floor plans from the Bundestag to the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
An employee of a company working for parliament is said to have handed over files with floor plans of its properties to a secret service employee in the Russian embassy in Berlin, as the prosecution announced in Karlsruhe on Thursday.
The German citizen should therefore have to answer before the Berlin Chamber Court.
The Federal Prosecutor's office is the man before so-called secret service agent activity.
According to her, the accused, identified as Jens F., worked for a company that worked several times as a service provider for the Bundestag.
It was commissioned to carry out “statutory inspections of portable electrical devices” in Bundestag properties.
Espionage charges: the accused should "of their own accord" to pass on information to the Russian intelligence service
"At the latest in the period from the end of July 2017 to the beginning of September 2017, the accused decided on his own initiative to pass on the information about the properties of the German Bundestag to Russian intelligence services," says a press release from the Federal Prosecutor's Office.
He sent a data carrier with the corresponding PDF files to a GRU employee in the Russian embassy in Berlin.
The prosecution did not provide any further details on the case.
The State Security Senate of the Berlin Higher Regional Court is now responsible for examining the indictment and deciding whether to open a main hearing.
(AFP / cibo)
