Germany Arrests Russian Scientist for Spying for Moscow

BERLIN - German police arrested a Russian scientist working at an unidentified university, accusing him of spying for Moscow, prosecutors said on Monday, in a case that risks further inflaming bilateral tensions.

Federal prosecutors said in a statement that the suspect, identified only as Ilnur N., had been taken into custody on Friday on suspicion of "working for a Russian secret service since early October 2020 at the latest". Ilnur N. was employed until the time of his arrest as a research assistant for a natural sciences and technology department at the unnamed German university.   German investigators believe he met at least three times with a member of Russian intelligence between October 2020 and this month. On two occasions he allegedly "passed on information from the university's domain".