German court convicts Ukrainian man over Russia parcel plot
The court said the man sent packages with GPS trackers from Germany to Ukraine to scope out potential sabotage targets for Russian secret services.
A German court has sentenced a 30-year-old Ukrainian man to one year and three months in prison for his involvement in a Russian plot to carry out acts of sabotage through parcel shipments. Two other Ukrainian men, aged 22 and 25, were acquitted. Prosecutors claimed that the three men were involved in sending packages with GPS trackers from Germany to Ukraine, with the intention of revealing transport routes and passing the information to Russian secret services.
The plan was discovered before it could be implemented. The convicted man is accused of intentionally participating in scouting potential sabotage targets for a Russian state entity, and has been found guilty of spying for the purposes of sabotage. The court ruled that he involved the other two defendants in the shipment of GPS trackers. Both the convicted defendant and the prosecutors have the right to appeal.
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