In Denmark, the court sentenced Russian to three years in prison. He was condemned for the “transmission of information”, the TASS reports with reference to the press release of the judicial instance.
“Since during a number of years he collected information of the Technical University of Denmark and the Company in Northern Jutland, respectively, and transferd this information to Russian intelligence, including for a fee. The verdict – 3 years of imprisonment. The accused will be expelled from Denmark with constant The ban on the entrance, “the report says.
The Agency does not call the name of the Russian, but most likely we are talking about Russian scientist Alexei Nikiforov. From open sources it is known that he is a specialist in the “chemistry of rare and scattered elements,” worked in one of the Danish universities, lived in Copenhagen and Aalborg.
At the end of last year, the Denmark’s prosecutor’s office accused the Russian citizen in espionage permanently residing in the country: he allegedly passed the Russian exploration on Danish energy. “The defendant, which is in custody from the beginning of July 2020, is suspected of among other things in the provision of Danish energy technologies of Russian intelligence,” they specified in a law enforcement agency.