The authorities held a Greek man arrested on Friday to photograph supply convoys in the name of Russia in the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis, a judicial source said.
Alexandroupolis has been a key entrance door for the US army, used to transport supplies to Europe under a mutual defense pact.
The man of 59 -year -old Georgian descent was arrested Tuesday in the city of Northeast and tasks before a research magistrate for an audience on Friday.
A police source told AFP that the suspect, who has identified as a painter of the house, was aimed at military convoys to Ukraine, according to the images recovered from his cell phone.
The man “confessed to take photos and videos of military material, acting on behalf of another person to whom he sent the footage through an encrypted application,” police said in a statement on Tuesday.
But the hearing of the duration of Friday, the suspect said that “he had not done anything illegal,” according to a judicial source, and that he had not hero or transmitted confidential information.
He said that “the photos that show the transport of NATO teams have already been published many times in the media, both locally and on the Internet,” added the judicial source.
Russian army veteran
The police source said that the suspect, who had served in the Russian army in his youth, had apparently enlisted by the Gru de Russia Military Intelligence Service through an intermediary.
The man tolerated the police that had rejected the payment and was sending the images voluntarily, said the source.
He faces a prison sentence of five to 10 years if he is declared guilty of espionage.
The Greek media reported that the intermediary was a Georgian man with an organized crime that remained in Lithuania.
He was arrested in Lithuania in March, Greek reports said on Friday: the information that the Lithuanian authorities did not want to comment.
In 2023, it was revealed that a Russian woman had been living in Greece for years under the identity of a very deceased Greek girl.
Making an owner of a fabric store in Athens, Suspone’s sleeping agent fled the country before the authorities could intercept it to interrogate him.
Despite historical ties with Russia, Greece has supported Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion.
He strongly criticized Russia’s invasion, received Ukrainian refugees and has humanitarian aid and weapons that include vehicles to fight infantry, Kalashnikov assault rifles, pitchers and ammunition, according to kyiv.
