Germans catch a spy in Bundestag: What He Offered to the Russians

The chief state prosecutor in Karlsruhe, Germany, has filed an indictment against a German citizen for spying on the Russian secret service.

German citizen Jens F. He has allegedly handed over the plans for the Reichstag building, the German parliament, a Russian embassy employee working for Russia's military intelligence service in mid-2017,”, Carlsruhe General Prosecutor General in a statement.

Fifty-five-year-old Jens F. From Potsdam worked for a company that regularly controlled electrical installations in buildings used by Bundestag, near the Raychstag building and the building with MPs' offices and which had access to detailed floor plans.

He reportedly copied the data with floor plans and sent it to a Russian embassy employee. It's not said if Jens F. has received money for these services.

As announced today, the indictment was presented at the Berlin Federal State Supreme Court on 12 February.

This is not the first time Russian secret services have allegedly been spying on the German parliament. Thus, in 2016, German authorities announced that Russian secret services had attacked the Bundestag computer system a year earlier.

A report on Russian spying could strengthen the positions of opponents of the Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream 2, which will be run under the Baltic Sea.

Such criticism also comes from the United States, with claims that the project would boost Germany's energy dependence on a potentially unreliable partner.