MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced an Estonian policeman to 15 years in jail on espionage charges in a move slammed by the European Union, as tensions spike over the Ukraine crisis.
A court in the western Pskov region, which borders Estonia, sentenced Eston Kohver on charges of spying, weapon possession and illegally crossing the border, his court-appointed lawyer, Yevgeny Aksyonov, told AFP.
Prosecutors claimed Kohver was detained on Russian territory last September as he carried out an undercover operation.
Tallinn, however, accuses Moscow’s FSB security service of kidnapping the law enforcement officer at gunpoint from Estonian territory as he was …read more
Source: theSun
