David Smith, a British security officer accused of spying for Russia, will be extradited from Germany to the UK on Wednesday 6 April. He will appear before the Royal Courts of Justice, in the City of Westminster in London, this Thursday, April 7.
The 57-year-old employee of the British embassy in Berlin was arrested last August at his apartment in Potsdam, Germany. The intelligence services had discovered that he was passing information to a Russian official in exchange for large sums of money. According to the elements of the investigation, he would also have sent her material since November 2020.
At the time of David Smith’s arrest, the police had discovered in his house an arsenal of objects that reflected his admiration for Vladimir Putin: two Russian flags, a collection of Soviet military caps, a naval shield, and war books written in Russian.
The man also had a copy of the spy novel. black candleswritten by John LeCarre in 1962, whose hero is a British secret service agent, and the book of not David, The triggerwhich is full of conspiracy theories.
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