Russian spy tried infiltrating war crimes court, Dutch authorities say
The International Criminal Court in The Hague. Authorities in the Netherlands said Thursday that they refused entry to a Russian spy posing as a Brazilian national to infiltrate the International Criminal Court — where authorities speculated he was seeking to gain access to information relating to the ICC’s investigations of alleged Russian war crimes.The alleged spy “was sent back to Brazil on the first flight out,” authorities said of the events, which took place in April.
The original document, probably written in mid-2010, was in Portuguese and included notable grammatical mistakes. It had been redacted by Dutch authorities to remove identifying information of people not involved in Cherkasov’s intelligence activities.“This was a long-term, multi-year GRU operation that cost a lot of time, energy and money,” Dutch intelligence agency chief Erik AkerboomDutch authorities briefed the court on the operation, spokesperson Sonia Robla said in an emailed statement.
Cherkasov was set to start an internship at the ICC, where Dutch intelligence said he may have sought to gain access to information about ongoing investigations into allegations of Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine and in Georgia in 2008.
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