Lettisk EU-parlamentariker utreds för spioneri
Både Lettlands säkerhetstjänst och EU-parlamentet har inlett utredningar av den lettiska EU-parlamentarikern Tatjana Zdanoka efter uppgifter om att hon samarbetat med den ryska säkerhetstjänsten FSB, rapporterar AFP.
Flera tidningar, däribland Expressen, publicerade i slutet av januari en rad läckta mejl som ska visa att Zdanoka både skickat information och tagit emot instruktioner av en kontaktperson inom FSB så långt tillbaka som 2004.
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Tatjana Zdanoka
Wikipedia (en)
Tatjana Ždanoka or Tatyana Zhdanok (Russian: Татья́на Арка́дьевна Ждано́к, Tatyana Arkadyevna Zhdanok; born Tatyana Khesin (Хесин) on 8 May 1950) is a Latvian politician and a Member of the European Parliament. She is co-chairwoman of the Latvian Russian Union and its predecessor parties (Equal Rights and For Human Rights in a United Latvia) since 1993.
From 1988 to 1989 she was one of the leaders of the Interfront, a political front organization opposing Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union and rapid market reforms. She remained active in the Communist Party of Latvia after January 1991, when the party leadership called for a coup against the government of the Latvian SSR (in opposition to a restoration of independence). In 1997, Ždanoka was elected to Riga municipal council, but was deprived of the mandate in the Council in 1999 and is prohibited from further nomination for election to the Latvian Parliament or local councils under Latvian law due to her former allegiance with the Communist Party after January 1991. Together with Alfrēds Rubiks, she is in the peculiar position of being restricted to European Parliament elections only.
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