Vienna is considered a playground for agents.
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A suspected Russian spy in Austria has partially confessed. The way in which secrets are said to have reached Moscow is adventurous.
IA spy affair is taking place in Austria that has adventurous ramifications. The connections extend from Vienna to Moscow, from London to Dubai, from a boat trip by the Austrian Interior Ministry seven years ago to the fugitive former Wirecard board member Jan Marsalek, who is apparently in Russian service. And last but not least, it has an unmistakable impact on many of the affairs of Austrian domestic politics in recent years.
The protagonist is now the former police officer and constitutional protection officer Egisto Ott. He has been appearing in the media once more and once more for years. In 2017 he was suspended by the then head of the now dissolved Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution BVT. A foreign service had reported that confidential emails from Ott’s work and private email addresses had been copied. In January 2021, Ott was arrested once on the orders of the Vienna public prosecutor’s office and his cell phone was confiscated. Ott has rejected the allegations of, among other things, abuse of office on several occasions. He portrayed it as an intrigue once morest himself by ÖVP-affiliated networks in the Interior Ministry.
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