A Norwegian who worked as a security guard at the US embassy in Oslo is accused of spying for Russia and Iran, according to an indictment provided to Agence France-Presse today, BTA reported.
The 27-year-old guard is accused of providing plans and information about activities at the US embassy in exchange for payments in euros and bitcoins between March and November 20 last year.
In Oslo, Serbia and Turkey, he provided Russian and Iranian intelligence services with the names, addresses, phone numbers and license plates of diplomats and employees, as well as their spouses and children, the indictment states. the document, which AFP has seen.
According to the same source, he also provided plans of the embassy, information on routine security measures and a list of couriers used by Norwegian intelligence services.
"These intelligence activities are serious, in particular because they were intended to reveal information to a foreign country," the Norwegian prosecutor wrote in the indictment presented yesterday.
The defendant admits the facts but denies the charges against him, his lawyer Inger Zadig said, quoted by Te Fau 2 television.
The security guard is also accused of trying to conceal part of the payments, which amounted to more than 200,000 kroner (17,000 euros), by transferring them to the bank accounts of his relatives.
According to local media, he has been threatened with 21 years prison.
Norwegian intelligence services regularly point to Russia - with which NATO member Norway shares a land border in the Arctic - along with Iran and China as the main countries from which espionage threats arise.