The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court found a foreign citizen born in 1993 guilty of illegally obtaining information considered a state secret. writes about this TASS.
It turned out that the man wanted to bribe a border control officer to receive confidential information about the alignment of forces and means of protecting the state border, the procedure for their use, the deployment of border patrol ships and other useful information. This data was supposed to help extract marine biological resources.
The court sentenced the foreigner to be deported from Russia for 70 years and fined 50 thousand rubles. The decision has already entered into legal force.
Before that, a former police officer from Krasnodar fine For revealing state secrets. In January 2023, the defendant disclosed information in the documents to a third party over the phone. Law enforcement authorities considered this behavior as the disclosure of state secrets. The defendant himself confessed his crime.
Formerly a German intelligence officer accused He is working undercover for the Russian Federation.