Ott faced a total of 21 charges.
On Wednesday, an Austrian court found the former chief inspector of the now dissolved Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT) Egist Ott guilty of abuse of official power and espionage. TASR writes about it according to the APA agency.
Ott faced a total of 21 charges. In the case of espionage for the benefit of Moscow, he repeatedly sought the personal data of many people without official authorization and provided them to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) through the former manager of the Wirecard company, Jan Marsalek.
