US EditionAustrian ex-agent to go on trial in Russia spying case
Egisto Ott faces charges including corruption and espionage for sharing sensitive data and secure communication devices with Russian intelligence, receiving over €80,000 in payments.
- On Thursday, Egisto Ott, former Austrian intelligence official, goes on trial in Vienna accused of spying for Russia in Austria's biggest spy trial in years; he faces up to five years if convicted.
- Prosecutors say Ott acted on orders from Jan Marsalek and received payments exceeding more than 80,000 euros for unauthorized access to national and international police databases.
- Abusing his authority, Egisto Ott allegedly accessed national and international police databases, copied work phones recovered from the River Danube, and handed an encrypted laptop to Jan Marsalek and the FSB, later sold to Iran.
- Prosecutors warn Ott's alleged conduct damaged Austria's reputation and security, risking serious harm among allied intelligence services and exposing Ukrainian and Chechen refugees to threats with documents called an instruction manual for assassinations on EU territory.
- Austria's spy scandal revives long-standing concerns about Russian espionage, with Jan Marsalek, fugitive ex-Wirecard executive, wanted by Germany and prosecutors charging Thomas Schellenbacher, former MP, for aiding Marsalek's 2020 escape to Moscow.
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A former constitutional defender of Austria, who is said to have spied for Russia, is on trial in Vienna.
In Vienna, the trial against a former intelligence man begins – and makes visible the system of spying, which the former Wirecard manager Marsalek apparently operated for Russia.
Since today, former constitutional defender Egisto Ott has been on trial in Vienna. Has he passed sensitive information on to Russian networks?
The prosecutor sees state treason by ex-BVT chief inspector Egisto Ott. Money worries and professional frustration as a motive? Compulsory defender Anna Mair has gained fame with terrorist trials. She represents, for example, those 15-year-olds who are supposed to have planned an IS attack at Vienna's Westbahnhof. Shortly before Christmas, her law firm partner Michael Ofner and her former chief inspector of the Federal Office for the Protection …
An espionage trial against a high-ranking official of the Austrian constitutional protection has begun at the Wiener Landesgericht.
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Austrian ex-agent goes on trial in Russia spying case
A former Austrian intelligence official went on trial in a Vienna court on Thursday charged with handing over sensitive devices and selling secret information to Russia.
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