Brit accused of spying for Putin's Russia and leaking embassy info appears in court
On August 5 last year, Smith also allegedly made a photocopy of documents that could be useful to the Russians.
He is also accused of holding onto SIM card packaging he had been told to destroy and making recordings of someone on the CCTV system at the embassy.He also shared information about building repairs at the embassy in Berlin which could be "directly or indirectly useful" to the Russian state. Intelligence agencies in the UK and Germany are said to have trailed Smith for months before swooping on his address and detaining him last summer.
The CPS worked with the Metropolitan Police to build a prosecution case and authorised charges on November 15 last year. Head of Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division at the CPS, Nick Price said: “David Smith has been charged with nine offences contrary to the Official Secrets Act.
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