Court hears he started collecting confidential information “to give the embassy a bit of a slap”.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
told a London court on Tuesday that he is “disgusted with myself and ashamed of what I’ve done”.
Smith pleaded guilty in November to eight offences under the Official Secrets Act, including one charge relating to passing information to General Major Sergey Chukhrov, the Russian military attache to Berlin, in November 2020. The court heard on Monday that Smith collected highly sensitive information for more than three years, including “secret” government communications with Prime Minister Boris Johnson from two Cabinet ministers and other sensitive documents.
Smith was arrested in August 2021, the day after meeting “Irina” – an MI5 officer posing as a member of Russia’s military intelligence service, who told him she needed help as someone had passed information to Britain which “could be damaging to Russia”.
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