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The Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Linz is expected Wednesday to no longer rule on the complaint of the Public Prosecutor of Salzburg against the release of a former officer suspected of espionage. OLG spokesman Wolfgang Seyer told APA that the act was still in Salzburg. A decision should not be made until Thursday. However, the matter will be dealt with urgently.
12:42, November 14, 2018
The judge in charge of detention and legal protection ordered the release of the 70-year-old woman on Tuesday because she saw no reason to detain her. In order to avoid any risk of absconding, the Salzburg Regional Court withdrew the pbadport from the accused and instructed him to report daily to the nearest police station. In addition, the retired agent must immediately inform the regional court of each change of residence. The Salzburg Prosecutor filed a complaint against the resignation decree of OLG Linz. The accused is currently on the run.
Salzburg, aged 70, is suspected of espionage on behalf of Russia from 1992 to the end of September 2018. His arrest took place last Saturday. Specifically, the suspicions that weighed on him because of the secret intelligence agency offense to the detriment of Austria (Article 256 of the German Civil Code), the offense of treason of State secrets (Article 252 Abs 1 StGB) and the deliberate disclosure of a military secret (Article 26 Abs 2 of the Military Penal Code).
The Russian political blog Nesygar wrote Tuesday afternoon about the Russian-Austrian secret consultations of the past three days, which would have resolved the "situation" around the so-called Russian espionage in the army. In Austria itself, there was no confirmation.
"There was an agreement to define bilateral measures for the immediate solution of the situation and to demonstrate to the public a friendly approach and a desire for dialogue," wrote the anonymous authors of the blog, at least sometimes well informed, distributed via the Telegram messaging service and its correspondents. The success of the general non-political transparency in Russia is due.
In addition, they have decided to present a diplomatic scenario to international diplomacy to resolve inter-state conflicts in the spying field, Nesygar said, while accusing Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev as president. of the Russian Presidential Chancellery Anton Wajno and the President of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matvienko.
Whether or not Nesygar's claims are correct remains unclear. At the Federal Chancellery and at the Hofburg, they did not want to comment on such speculation about the APA's request, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said that he knew nothing about it . "For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I can exclude such consultations since the telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov," said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna.
Since this Saturday phone call, presented differently by those involved, relaxation signals have been observed both in Moscow and Vienna. Russian public television channels, likely to be the subject of blatant criticism from the Kremlin, reported relatively friendly about Austria on Sunday and saw a Western policy dominated by the United States in the context of the case of espionage. But President Alexander Van der Bellen also called Monday in the "ZiB 2" of the ORF not to dramatize the cause. "This will not permanently damage our relations with the Russian government," said the head of state.
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