ROME — Italian police have found a stash of classified and highly classified military documents they believe an Italian navy captain gave to a Russian official in return for cash, a judicial source said on Friday.
Walter Biot, 54, was arrested on Tuesday in a Rome car park. A police source said he had been seen handing information to a Russian military attache in exchange for 5,000 euros ($5,900).
The judicial source with access to the case files said police had recovered a memory card containing 181 photos classified as confidential, nine classified as highly confidential, and 47 classified as secret documents from NATO.
Biot’s lawyer Roberto De Vita told an Italian newsp…
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