Romanian Petty-Officer, Foreign Citizen Arrested As Spies

One petty-officer within the Romanian Ministry of Defense and one foreign citizen were placed under preventive arrest for 29 days, at the proposition of organized crime prosecutors, the charges being treason through the transmission of secretes and espionage.

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Organized crime prosecutors decided to initiate criminal investigations and arrest Floricel Achim, petty-officer within the Ministry of Defense, under charges of treason, and foreign citizen Marinov Zikolov, under charges of espionage, according to a press release issued Monday by the Public Ministry.

"Investigations performed revealed that the two defendants used (developed) a system, based on which Floricel Achim obtained military documents, including classified documents, whose dissemination can endanger national security, which he later gave to Marinov Zikolov," the document reads.

Prosecutors also established that after taking the data from Achim, the foreign citizen would forward it to the representatives of a non-allied state, in exchange for material benefits.

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