National Flag of the Federal Republic of GermanyBERLIN, Feb 3Hearings in the case of Russian Ilnur N. suspected of spying for the Russian Federation will begin on February 17 in the Higher Regional Court of Munich, the court reports on Thursday. of the Prosecutor General's Office of September 9, 2021 against Ilnur N. on suspicion of intelligence activities,» the document says. Twelve court hearings are preliminarily scheduled, they will begin on February 17 at 09.30 (11.30 Moscow time) in Munich. At the end of January, it became known that the federal the German prosecutor's office brought charges against Ilnur N. in the case of espionage in favor of the Russian Federation. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin knows nothing about the detention of people in Germany on charges of transferring secrets of the space program to the Foreign Intelligence Service.The Kremlin answered the question about the detention of a Russian in the Federal Republic of GermanyAccording to the prosecutor's office of the Federal Republic of Germany, no later than the fall of 2019, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service came into contact with Ilnur N., who worked at the natural science department of one of the German universities. The secret service was allegedly interested in data «on the distinguishable degrees of development of the European Ariane launch vehicle, as well as on the research of the accused in the field of materials science,» the accused agreed to cooperate. Since the end of November 2019, Ilnur N. has repeatedly met with an operational officer of the Russian foreign intelligence service based in Germany, transferred data, and in exchange received cash in the amount of 2.5 thousand euros, the German prosecutor's office said. As Spiegel reported, the German Foreign Ministry announced persona non grata of an employee of the Russian Consulate General in Munich, who, according to the publication, was an officer of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. The German Foreign Ministry confirmed to RIA Novosti that an employee of the Russian Consulate General in Munich was declared persona non grata and left the country in the summer of 2021, when Ilnur N. was detained. The German Foreign Ministry did not specify the reasons for this decision.
