A prominent Russian official sells information about Russian forces in Syria for $248!!

Two Russian citizens, one of whom is a senior official, are accused of spying for Germany, by providing the latter with information about the activities of the Russian forces deployed in Syria, according to the official Russian news agency, TASS.

According to the report, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) accuses the adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency, “Roscosmos Ivan Safronov” and the adviser, “Demory Voronin”, of handing over to German intelligence information affecting the Russian armed forces in Syria.

Ivan Pavlov, the lawyer for the accused, Safronov, stated that the latter faces a new accusation other than the accusation of handing over sensitive information to a Czech intelligence officer, and this accusation dates back to the end of 2015, when Safronov collected information about the activities of the Russian armed forces in Syria to the Chancellor of the German Parliament.

Dimory Voronin (of Russian origin), the latter sent it to representatives of the Swiss University of Zurich and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), and this information was used to analyze the activities of Russian forces in Syria.

The Russian public prosecutor says that the adviser to the head of the space agency received a reward of 248 dollars from “Voronin” for this information.

In the same context, lawyer “Pavlov” confirmed that Chancellor “Voronin”, who holds Russian and German passports, and was arrested in February 2021 on charges of high treason, managed to win the “cooperation” of dozens of Russian political analysts and journalists with his “consulting agency”.

Some of those arrested made important confessions.

In the summer of 2020, the Russian security arrested the adviser to the head of the State Space Agency, “Safronov,” on charges of working for the Czech intelligence, which had recruited him since 2012, with the aim of collecting information about Moscow’s military cooperation with African countries, and the activities of the Russian Air Force in the Middle East.

The Russians say that the information collected by “Safronov” for the benefit of the Czechs, was in the end flowing to the Americans.