Identified as thomas h.worked in a company of the German Ministry of Defense responsible for the development of military equipment and communication technology for the German Army.
This officer of the german armed forces (the Bundeswehr) was actually a paid spy for Russia, until he was detected by the national security services and arrested.
It was precisely his indiscreet comments in his work environment, where he expressed his sympathies in favor of Russia in the ukrainian warwhich made him a person of interest to the German intelligence services.
The German Prosecutor’s Office had found a direct link between Thomas H. and the Russian embassy in berlin.
In his statement, he stated that no Russian agent approached him to capture him, but that it was he himself who approached the Russian embassy in Berlin and the Russian consulate in Bonn to offer their services, said the BBC.
On Wednesday, he testified before the judge, who ordered his imprisonment. In a message posted on Twitter, the German Minister of Justice, Marco Buschmanconfirmed the arrest of the “German officer suspected of working for a foreign secret service.”
Following his arrest in the western city of Koblenz, the police searched his home and office. The German security agency, the BfV, had warned of an information leak last June due to “an aggressive Russian espionage operation” in the context of the invasion of Ukraine.
Despite the seriousness of the incident, the german government He has been calm: “This case shows that our security forces are closely monitoring Russian espionage in Germany and are taking consistent action against it”; said the German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeserin statements collected by efe.
It is not the only case of Russian espionage detected in Germany. In January, a senior German intelligence officer was arrested on suspicion of committing high treason by passing on state secrets to Russian intelligence.
In addition, in November of last year, a former reserve officer of the Bundeswehr He was sentenced for having transmitted information about the German armed forces and other matters to the Russian intelligence services.
