Frode Berg is charged with spying under
Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code.
MOSCOW,
January 23. /TASS/. The Moscow city court on Tuesday upheld the arrest of
Norwegian citizen Frode Berg, who is accused of spying, a TASS correspondent
reports from the courtroom.
The judge said the defense lawyer’s appeal against remanding Berg in custody till February 5, 2018 was dismissed. The case was considered behind closed doors because the case involved secret documents.
Berg is
charged with spying under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code. The federal
security service FSB detained him in Moscow in a special operation the moment
he was receiving secret documents. The investigators say the documents
concerning Russia’s Navy were handed over to Berg by Russian citizen Aleksey
Zhitnyuk. A district court in Moscow ordered his arrest on charges of high
treason (Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code).
