According to an investigation into the theft of confidential NATO information from the computer and tablet of one of the Swedish officers, the man tried to give the Russians an external drive with the stolen information.
Who was detained for trying to transfer data to NATO?
What charges was brought against the detained former soldier?
What did the stolen disk given to the Russians contain?
Under what circumstances was the man detained in Ukraine?
The investigation shows that the 23-year-old Portuguese was in war-torn Ukraine in 2023, where the local services detained him on charges of espionage. He had a gun on him when he was arrested.
According to the case files, the man falsely claiming to be an officer of the Portuguese intelligence services was eventually deported to Portugal, from where he then regularly traveled to Luxembourg.
The police determined that the person accused of theft last year computer and tablet containing NATO information, he allegedly obstructed the investigation conducted against him and provided false information.
Investigators claim that the 23-year-old was assisted in the theft by two other people who were also under investigation.
The man was charged. He has done more than just espionage
A statement published by the Lisbon General Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday shows that the man was charged in February this year. among others charges of attempted espionage, aggravated theft, using someone else's identity document, and submitting false testimony.
Additionally, the Portuguese, who is imprisoned in Monsanto prison, was accused of possessing child pornography, as well as falsely attributing participation in espionage to people unrelated to this practice.
According to the prosecutor's office, the theft, which occurred during an international conference on robotic experiments with unmanned systems at the Lisbon Maritime School, was commissioned to the Portuguese “by third parties.”
