Prosecutors in Germany have revealed that three suspected agents of a foreign intelligence service are in custody after their arrest earlier this week.
The suspected foreign agents were arrested in Frankfurt on Wednesday, according to the German federal prosecutor’s office, which publicly disclosed the arrests for the first time on Friday.
The men were brought before a judge on Thursday, who confirmed that the men should remain in custody.
“The three suspects traveled through Germany on behalf of a foreign secret service to collect information about a person from Ukraine who was staying here,” Germany’s highest prosecutorial authority added.
According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the alleged agents are Ukrainian, Armenian and Russian citizens. They are “strongly suspected” of having worked for a foreign secret service.
