5 kuud enne Davosi tippkohtumist võttis Šveitsi politsei vahele 2 Venemaa diplomaatilist passi lehvitanud meest, kes soovisid linna paigaldada jälitusseadmestiku, millega jälgida ja pealt kuulata tippkohtumise osalejaid.
Five months before world leaders began their pilgrimage to the annual World Economic Forum this week — among them US president Donald Trump — Swiss police interrupted what reports on Tuesday claimed were the beginnings of a Russian spying operation in the secluded Alpine town.
Alerted to their unusually long stay in the high-end resort, police picked up two Russian men in Davos in August, the Graubünden cantonal police department confirmed to the Financial Times.
The men claimed diplomatic protections, but had not been registered as official diplomats with Bern, the police said.
No indications of criminal acts were found at the time, the police added.
According to Zürich’s Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, which carried a detailed report of the incident, police and Swiss federal officials suspected the pair of being Russian intelligence agents, posing as tradesmen in order to install surveillance equipment at key facilities around the town to monitor the private conversations of the world’s powerful and wealthy during the World Economic Forum on behalf of the Kremlin.
https://www.ft.com/content/98deb6ee-3c3 ... e547046735
Samuti hoiti Davosis ära rünnak Putini kriitiku Bill Browderi vastu. Torumeestena kinni peetud mehed esitasid Vene diplomaatilised passid ja lahkusid maalt.
On #DavosToday, @BillBrowder told @AxelThrelfall that the Swiss security service foiled a Russian operation that targeted him. 'They were posing as plumbers - when they were arrested, they presented their diplomatic passports and left the country
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51196659
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