Russian Charged With Spying for Britain Is Held
A Russian citizen has been arrested and charged with spying for Britain, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Wednesday.
The FSB, the main successor agency to the KGB, said that, as a result of a counterintelligence operation, the agent has been taken into custody. The unidentified Russian was recruited by foreign intelligence agents “with direct participation of the Estonian special services,” the FSB said in a statement.
An investigation is underway, the FSB said. A spokesman declined to give further details. The British refused to comment.
In another espionage case, the Moscow city court on Tuesday postponed a hearing for a former Russian diplomat accused of spying for British intelligence.
Platon Obukhov was arrested in 1996 after he acknowledged being recruited by Britain’s intelligence service while a diplomat in Norway in the early 1990s.
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