Security News > 2011 > May > Russia expels Israeli military attache for 'industrial espionage'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8524198/Russia-expels-Israeli-military-attache-for-industrial-espionage.html By Andrew Osborn, Moscow Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Telegraph.co.uk May 19, 2011 In a scandal that risks souring traditionally good relations between the two countries, Russian security sources claimed that Air Force Colonel Vadim Leiderman, Israel's military attaché in Russia, had been caught "red-handed" receiving classified documents in Moscow last Thursday. "This deals entirely with industrial espionage or rather his overly active work on behalf of certain Israeli companies on the Russian market," a Russian security source told the RIA Novosti news agency. Col Leiderman was reportedly detained at a café where he was meeting a source from the Russian defence ministry and questioned for several hours before being told to leave the country within 48 hours. [...]