Former Austrian intelligence official Egisto Ott faces criminal proceedings, accused of corruption and multi-year spying for Russia by delivering an encrypted laptop and the leaks of sensitive information on Friday.
OTT, who was currently off to now, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT), the then General Austrian domestic intelligence agency, was arrested in March 2024. year due to the spyg.
OTT denied all charges. His lawyer refused to give a comment on Friday.
Vienna prosecutors said in the statement to initiate proceedings against Otto and unidentified police officers, claiming crimes or supported an intelligence agency at the detriment of Austria, with bribery, abuse of position and release official secrecy.
The statement states that OTT is accused, among other things, for supporting an unspecified Russian intelligence agency “by collecting secret information from the police databases between 2017. and 2021. for the purpose of their transfer of Jan Marsalek and unknown representatives of the Russian intelligence service.
It was added that OTT allegedly received the payment in return.
OTT was also accused of delivering an unknown person in exchange for 20,000 euros ($ 23,000) to an unknown person ($ 23,000), including the hardware that European Union governments used for safe communication. The laptop was then committed to the Russian intelligence agency, added.
There are more and more accusations and evidence that Marsalek, who is an Austrian, orchestrated Russian spy activities in his homeland and led double agents in the domestic intelligence. Given his fugitive status, it is not known who Marsaleka would represent in this case.
(Vijesti.ba)
