EU arrests men on charges of spying for Russia

摘要

On 24 May, the European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) confirmed that two men, one Portuguese and one Russian, had been arrested under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) scheme in Rome on suspicion of "being paid to transfer confidential information to a foreign intelligence service". A Reuters report stated that the arrested Portuguese national worked for the country's domestic Security Intelligence Service (Servico de Informacoes de Segu-ranca: SIS), with a report by the UK's The Telegraph newspaper suggesting that the Russian was an officer with that country's Foreign Intelligence Service (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki: SVR).