Most newspapers today read about the espionage scandal revealed by the Organized Crime and Terrorism Division of the Romanian Interior ministry which lead to the arrest of Romanian low-rank officer Floricel Achim and a Bulgarian citizen, Marinov Zikolov. Elsewhere in the news, authorities seem to forecast a bad economic year.
Romania Libera reads about the espionage scandal revealed by the Organized Crime and Terrorism Division in the Romanian Interior ministry that lead to the arrest of Romanian low rank officer Floricel Achim and his accomplice, a Bulgarian citizen, Marinov Zikolov.
According to military sources, the newspaper reads that the two spies transmitted secret information to Russia through Bulgarian and Ukrainian intermediaries. Ukraine's military attache to Bucharest is said to have been expelled from Romania.
Romania's military secret services low rank officer Floricel Achim, whose job was to class secret information, copied and sold information to Bulgarian Zikolov Marinov. At his turn, Marinov sent the information to Ukraine's military attaché. The espionage action was discovered as early as 2005 but the members of the network were closely monitored, in an attempt to discover the ramifications of the network, according to the newspaper.
The main targets of the action were the military units at the Black Sea, Babadag and Medgidia, and each information was worth 800 to 1000 dollars, the newspaper reads. For four years, Romanian secret services delivered irrelevant information to Achim or even maps that could be downloaded from Google.
According to military sources, the information was not used only by Ukrainians but also by Russia. However, the military were not compromised as the information flow was controlled.
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