Arrested engineers from Krusik suspected of espionage
Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested three engineers from the Krušik company in Valjevo, due to the well-founded suspicion that they had committed the crime of espionage.
They were detained for up to 48 hours, by order of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo.
The suspects are former and current engineers at the company Krušik from Valjevo. It is a dedicated industry factory, which is state-owned and is the most complex factory of the defense industry in Serbia.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia announced that the suspects committed the above-mentioned criminal offense by unauthorizedly taking confidential business and technical documentation from this company and handing it over to a foreign organization, to the detriment of security, defense, military and other interests, as well as weakening the power of Serbia, it was stated. in a statement from the MUP.
Suspects are interrogated by the prosecutor’s office, and then detained, if there is a basis for it, and guilt can only be determined after the court proceedings.
According to the Criminal Code of Serbia, “whoever communicates, hands over or makes available secret military, economic or official data or documents to a foreign state, a foreign organization or a person who serves them, will be sentenced to three to 15 years in prison.” If the act has serious consequences for the security, economic or military power of the country, the minimum sentence is 10 years”.
As Politika writes, in the operation of the Security Information Agency, VBA, MUP and the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo, three engineers from the Serbian factory for the production of arms and ammunition Krušik were arrested because there are grounds for suspicion that during 2024 they continuously had contacts with citizens of North Macedonia. , employees of the ATS Group company, headed by businessman Ševćet Demirovski.
Source: Agencies, Politics
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