Overview
- German federal prosecutors said a Ukrainian man in Elda, Spain, and a Romanian woman in Rheine, Germany, were detained on suspicion of working for a Russian intelligence service.
- Investigators allege the man, identified as “Serguéi N.,” researched the target online and filmed the person’s workplace in Germany before relocating to Spain.
- Prosecutors say the woman, identified as “Alla S.,” later went to the target’s registered address in Germany and recorded the location on her phone to prepare further operations.
- Police searched both suspects’ homes, and the inquiry involves Germany’s domestic intelligence service along with special police units and Bavarian criminal investigators, with Spain’s national information units assisting.
- Judges will rule on pretrial detention for the Romanian suspect, and German authorities are coordinating the Ukrainian suspect’s transfer while officials have not disclosed what, if anything, the Spanish search recovered.