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Russia paid a former soldier working for Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND) at least 450,000 euros in return for information about weaponry with which the West was arming Ukraine, a court was told on Wednesday. Prosecutors have charged Carsten Linke and his accomplice, a Russian-born German diamond trader named Arthur Eller in trial documents, with high treason in a case that shines an awkward spotlight on Germany's vulnerability to Russian espionage.
By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia paid a former soldier working for Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND) at least 450,000 euros in re.