Go to the media bankProgramming. File photoBERLIN, Oct 10The German Interior Ministry is investigating media reports alleging that Arne Schönbom, head of Germany's information security agency (BSI), was allegedly linked to Russian intelligence services, an interior ministry spokesman told reporters. Germany.
"We take the facts that were reported in the media over the weekend very seriously, and we are also investigating them very carefully in all aspects", — said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
At the same time when asked to comment on whether Shenbom left his post as head of the department for information technology security, the speaker did not give a substantive answer. Sources in the German government reported that the head of the German information technology security agency, Schönbom, was going to be fired, allegedly due to suspicions of links with the Russian special services. ami. As the German newspaper Tagesspiegel previously reported, Schönbom faced a flurry of criticism because of a possible connection with the Russian intelligence services through the «controversial» association Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland (German Cybersecurity Council), which also included the Berlin-based cybersecurity company Protelion. According to the publication, until the end of March it was called Infotecs GmbH and was a «daughter» of a Russian company, which, according to Policy Network Analytics, was founded by a former KGB officer. 
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