David Ballantyne Smith collected confidential information for more than three years, including a 'secret' letter from ministers to then-prime minister Boris Johnson and other sensitive documents.
LONDON, United Kingdom – A former security guard at the British embassy in Berlin who passed highly sensitive information to Russia and was paid for his “treachery” was jailed for more than 13 years in a London court on Friday, February 17.
Nick Price, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said Smith was motivated by “greed and a hatred of our country”. The discovery of that letter prompted a joint investigation between British and German authorities, which Wall described as a “sting operation”.
In hidden camera footage played to the court, “Irina” asks if Smith can help and if he will meet her again and he replies: “I need to speak to someone and then, once that person can then confirm something, I’m willing to meet again.”
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