Overview
- The suspect, a Ukrainian national, was arrested in Hagen on Friday and a Federal Court of Justice judge ordered pretrial detention on Saturday.
- Federal prosecutors allege he gathered details on a man living in Germany who had joined Ukrainian forces after the invasion.
- Prosecutors say the surveillance likely prepared further intelligence operations against the targeted individual in Germany.
- Hagen police are leading the investigation under the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which handles national security cases.
- Authorities say this case is separate from recent arrests in Rheine and in Elda, Spain, as security services warn that Russian services increasingly recruit petty criminals for spying and sabotage.