Russia today accused the Netherlands of “anti-Russian campaigning” after Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a man they claimed was a Russian spy trying to infiltrate the International Criminal Court (ICC) under a false identity.
The Dutch secret services announced yesterday that they prevented a Russian spy from gaining access – pretending to be a trainee – to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in The Hague and is investigating, among other things, war crimes in Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the Netherlands had fabricated “information” to provoke a scandal and “scare the public with talks about insidious intrigues” by the Russians.
Moscow has regularly accused Western governments of “Russophobia”, which Russia has cited in response to numerous accusations of spies targeting European organizations and academia over the past decade.
“The anti-Russian espionage campaign launched in the country (the Netherlands), accompanied by deliberate ‘leaks’ of dubious content, causes nothing but damage to the already bad bilateral relations,” the statement added.
The ICC said it had uncovered a multi-year operation by the Russian military intelligence service GRU to secretly place an agent as a Brazilian who had applied for an internship at the ICC.
“It is significant that the incident occurred in early April and the Dutch authorities decided to report it only three months later,” the Russian statement said.
He accused the Netherlands of leaking the information in a bid to bolster support for the ICC’s investigation into allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
Source: Capital
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