Herman Simm, a former Estonian defence official, was sentenced on Wednesday (25 February) to 12 and a half years of prison and €1.288 million damages for passing NATO and EU classified information to Russian intelligence services.\n \n"Yes, I did work for foreign intelligence services. Yes, I did know the people whom I was sending the information were members of the Russian services," Mr Simm conceded on a video tape shown by prosecutors after the trial, which was held behind closed doors, AF...
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