Germany sacks cyber security chief suspected of links to Russia

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Nancy Fyser confirmed that Arne Schönbohm will be excluded from office after the necessary public confidence in his leadership neutrality and impartiality as head of Germany's most important cyber security agency was undermined”.

Schönbom, who has been at the helm of government computers and communications agencies since 2016, was monitored after Jan Böhmmann, a German comedian, stressed his connections with a Russian company at a previous job at a late-night show.