Former Austrian intelligence official convicted of spying for Russia

Financial Times: Egisto Ott, an accomplice to fugitive Jan Marsalek, found guilty in European country’s largest postwar espionage trial.

…Austrian prosecutors made 119 separate accusations against Ott, who they said acted as a procurer, logistician, technical expert and adviser for Weiss and Marsalek. 

Ott was found to have systematically accessed sensitive information from classified Austrian databases — some of it derived from partner European intelligence agencies — to sell to Marsalek and Russia…

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