[ISN] Russia expels Israeli military attache for 'industrial espionage'

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 02:56:31 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8524198/Russia-expels-Israeli-military-attache-for-industrial-espionage.html

By Andrew Osborn, Moscow 
Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem 
Telegraph.co.uk
May 19, 2011

In a scandal that risks souring traditionally good relations between the 
two countries, Russian security sources claimed that Air Force Colonel 
Vadim Leiderman, Israel's military attaché in Russia, had been caught 
"red-handed" receiving classified documents in Moscow last Thursday.

"This deals entirely with industrial espionage or rather his overly 
active work on behalf of certain Israeli companies on the Russian 
market," a Russian security source told the RIA Novosti news agency.

Col Leiderman was reportedly detained at a café where he was meeting a 
source from the Russian defence ministry and questioned for several 
hours before being told to leave the country within 48 hours. 

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