{"id":1616,"date":"2020-12-09T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=136023"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:06:05","slug":"denmark-charges-russian-citizen-with-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/09\/denmark-charges-russian-citizen-with-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark Charges Russian Citizen With Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/B2E0B0FD-B1EC-4ABD-BA02-EF1FA4DCAA7F_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Authorities in Denmark say they have charged a Russian citizen living in the Scandinavian country with espionage for allegedly providing information about Danish energy technology to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, whose identity was not revealed, has been held in custody since early July, the Danish prosecution service said in a statement on December 9.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Russian is accused of providing &#8220;information about, among other things, Danish energy technology to a Russian intelligence service&#8221; in exchange for money.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Embassy in Copenhagen identified the suspect as a man and called his arrest &#8220;a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Danish prosecutors said the case is connected to \u201ca major investigation\u201d by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, the Russian suspect faces imprisonment or deportation.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Embassy called on the Danish judiciary to \u201ctake an unbiased approach to the case,\u201d and said it hoped &#8220;our compatriot&#8221; would be acquitted in court and freed.<\/p>\n<p>The district court of Aalborg, northern Denmark, will handle the case but has yet to set a date on the proceedings, which are expected to be held behind closed doors<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, a Finnish national working with the University of Copenhagen as a researcher was sentenced to five months in prison for spying on Denmark on behalf of Russia.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by Reuters and AP<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/09\/denmark-charges-russian-citizen-with-espionage\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Denmark say they have charged a Russian citizen living in the Scandinavian country with espionage for allegedly providing information about Danish energy technology to Russia. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}