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Ex-German intelligence chief detained on treason charges
German authorities arrested August Hanning, former director of Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND), today, Tuesday, on charges of treason and espionage. He is suspected of receiving monetary payments in exchange for granting access to secret documents and using them to produce analyses for a foreign intelligence service. According to the prosecution, Hanning conspired with a former agency director to receive confidential information for money, which the latter provided—more than two thousand documents—including secret materials and internal briefings. It is believed that the analysis was prepared for the benefit of an unnamed foreign intelligence agency, not Russia. Both defendants are scheduled to appear before a federal court.
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