The Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Germany presented the former Bundeswehver officer the accusation of the transmission of secret data to the Russian special services. With regard to the accused Ralph, there are “sufficient suspicions of work on a foreign special service”, which was conducted against the interests of Germany and one of NATO member states, the statement of the German Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe, which comments on Deutsche Welle.
According to the statement, at the latest since October 2014, G. was in contact with various faces related to the Russian special service, and transferred them documents and data from public and non-public sources until March 2020. Access to this information, an order officer had in connection with his service in the Bundeswehr, where he was a deputy commander of the district communication management. In addition, he was a member of several economic committees, a statement is noted.
According to the charges, G. provided Moscow information on reservists of the Bundeswehr, military civilian cooperation, civil defense, as well as about the German economy, in particular on the consequences for Germans introduced in 2014 by European sanctions against the Russian Federation and on the gas pipeline “Northern Stream 2 “. In addition, he, in all likelihood, handed over Russian intelligence “Personal data of high-ranking representatives of the Bundeswehr and Business”, as well as information on the defense policy of the United States and its Western allies.
What kind of Russian special services are we talking about, it is not specified in the application.