Carsten Linke, an officer of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) arrested in December on charges of treason, was going to pass on information to Russia about the positions of Western military equipment received by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Source. This was reported by moscowtimes.eu with reference to Der Spiegel.
Details. According to the investigation, the FSB tried to find out through its agent the most accurate coordinates of the location of the HIMARS and IRIS-T multiple launch rocket systems. Sources familiar with the case say that the leak of such data is unlikely.
Such work was paid for with a six-figure sum in euros. The money was found on the exposed spy during his arrest.
In late December, German intelligence services accused an employee of the German BND of spying for Russia. As The Telegraph found out, the detainee was former footballer Carsten Linke, who ended his sports career to serve in the intelligence service. Linke was in charge of electronic intelligence and internal security units.
It was believed that before his arrest, Linke was building a successful career, was on his way to one of the highest positions in the BND and was already privy to secret intelligence shared with Western intelligence services.
Linke's alleged accomplice, Arthur Heller, who passed classified BND materials to the FSB, was detained in January at the Munich airport. Both suspects are in custody.