According to French authorities, the 40-year-old has links to Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Internal Security and counter-intelligence service.
Russia’s foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said ‘Kuzminov became a moral corpse at the very moment when he planned his dirty and terrible crime.’
Prosecutors said the player carried out activities including identifying critical infra, for which he was paid. He will be in pre-trial detention and could get up to 10 yrs in jail.
The FIS report said Switzerland has increased monitoring of India & Turkey, in the wake of the Ukraine war, since Russia has been using companies in these nations for procurement.
David Ballantyne Smith, 58, collected confidential information for more than three years, including ‘secret’ govt communications with then PM Boris Johnson.
The US reportedly pulled the agent out of Russia in 2017, in part out of concern that Trump might, in his freewheeling style, somehow reveal the spy’s identity.
Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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