Azerbaijan called accusations of espionage against former German intelligence chief disinformation
Yesterday, German police arrested August Hanning, the former head of the country's foreign intelligence service.
Azerbaijan responded to accusations of hiring a former German intelligence chief to spy for its benefit, calling publications about it a "disinformation operation," writes BBC.
The Media and Broadcasting Council of Azerbaijan called the mention of Azerbaijan in the investigation related to the former head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) August Hanning disinformation.
"The aim of the forces behind this disinformation operation is to harm Azerbaijani-German relations," their statement said.
On October 6, German police arrested August Hanning, the former head of the country's foreign intelligence service, and Manfred D., the former head of his office, on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason.
According to the prosecution, Manfred D. transmitted confidential information to Hanning, which the latter then used in his work as a consultant, including for employees of foreign intelligence services.
Later that day, the German publication Spiegel wrote that, according to its sources, Hanning's alleged client was an employee of Azerbaijani intelligence.
The investigation does not name a specific country, but according to its data, Hanning received about 2,000 documents from Manfred for his analytical notes, which he wrote for a foreign intelligence service. Not all, but many of them were secret.
"Whether these materials were successfully transmitted to the recipient has not yet been determined," the prosecutor's press release states.
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