Bulgaria suspects Russian diplomat of espionage

An investigation has already been launched against the diplomat, he is suspected of collecting and transmitting information constituting a state secret. According to the department, we are talking about the first secretary of the Russian embassy in Sofia

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General’s Office has launched an investigation into an employee of the Russian embassy in Sofia, who is suspected of spying for Moscow. This was announced by Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Teodora Genchovska, follows from messages departments.

A criminal case was opened against the diplomat under Art. 104 of the Criminal Code of Bulgaria. He is suspected of spying for a foreign state. The prosecutor’s office believes that the diplomat allegedly collected information constituting a state secret and passed it on to the other side. “He is accredited as the first secretary at the Russian embassy,” the prosecutor’s office said.

In the list published on the website of the mission not saidwhich member has that diplomatic rank.

Espionage for a foreign state violates Art. 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, added the department. According to this articlediplomats are “obliged not to interfere in the internal affairs of that state”, and the premises of the mission “should not be used for purposes inconsistent with the functions of the mission” provided for by the convention.