The FSB of the Russian Federation announced the arrest of a Japanese newspaper journalist in a case of espionage

The FSB of the Russian Federation announced the arrest of a Japanese newspaper journalist in a case of espionage

The FSB reported the arrest in the Sakhalin region of a Japanese journalist of the "Hokkaido Shimbun" newspaper, who collected information about the defense capabilities of the Russian Federation, he was taken to Moscow and arrested. "In the territory of the Sakhalin region, the illegal activity of the correspondent of the bureau of the Japanese newspaper "Hokkaido Shimbun" accredited to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a Japanese citizen, who is suspected of spying for one of the Japanese intelligence services," said the Public Relations Center of the FSB (PSC).