Greek police have announced that they had arrested a 59-year-old man in the Alexandroupolis strategic city in the northeast of the country, where he is suspected of having photographed Russia for Russia for rejection for Ukraine.
It was presented on Friday to an investigating judge, a police source told AFP.
In a statement, the police said that the suspect, a Greek of Georgian origin, had been arrested Tuesday during an intelligence services.
The man “admitted to having taken photos and videos of military equipment” and to have acted “on behalf of another person to whom he sent the sequences via an encrypted application,” added the police in his statement.
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-A suspect who served in the Russian army
The police source told AFP that the fifties, who explained to be a building painter, aimed at the military convoys to Ukraine, according to the images recovered on his mobile phone.
This source added that the suspect, who had served in the Russian army in his youth, had apparently been enlisted by the Russian military intelligence service GRU through an intermediary.
According to Greek media, this intermediary is a Georgian with links with organized and living crime in Lithuania.
Despite its historical links with Russia, Greece has supported Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. The Greek port of Alexandroupolis is an essential gateway to the American soldiers who transport supplies in Europe as part of a mutual defense pact.
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