Ex-engineer of the German company Eurocopter has confessed to industrial spying for Russia. The 44-year-old German citizen acknowledged the facts of selling technical information about civil Eurocopter helicopters to Russian special services. Next week the court will render a verdict.
      
      According to the prosecutors, in 2004-2006 the Eurocopter`s ex-worker several times forwarded secret documentation to a representative of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the RF on the territory of Germany, Austria and Croatia and received 13.000 EUR for his “help”.
      
      The defence claims that the engineer gave Russia only considerably unimportant information about technical details of the German civil helicopters. However, the prosecution representatives express an opinion that it is not always possible to distinguish military and industrial espionage and that the data forwarded by the Eurocopter`s ex-worker could be used for gaining competitive advantages and finding details of modification of the military helicopters.
      
      Source - top.rbc.ru