MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a scientist in Moscow on suspicion of treason, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The FSB did not name the scientist, who it said had carried out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on critical infrastructure on behalf of Ukrainian security services.
The domestic security agency said that the scientist had also sent money to the Ukrainian military, as well as gathering information on the Russian armed forces. The suspect had confessed, it said.
It was not immediately clear when the arrest was made. Russian media outlets published what they said was footage of the scientist’s detention.
The video, which shows a man arrested in a snow-covered city, suggested that the scientist may have been detained some time ago.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Alex Richardson)
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