A man who is said to have spied for Russia in Norway under a false identity, is held in custody for four weeks. That was decided by a court in Oslo on Friday. The researcher, according to the passport a 37-year-old Brazilian, was arrested on Monday on his way to work at the University of Tromsø. According to the television broadcaster NRK, he belonged to a research group dealing with hybrid warfare.
The Norwegian secret service PST According to the NTB news agency, he is now certain that he was actually born in Russia in 1978, works for a Russian secret service and is in the country with false documents. The man is accused of violating Section 121 of the Norwegian Criminal Code, which deals with spying on state secrets. The man’s lawyer told NTB on Friday that her client denied any guilt.