A 70-year-old man in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, was arrested for illegally obtaining documents related to military technology while hiding the purpose of handing it over to the staff of the Russian Trade Representative in Japan. The staff of the representative department left Haneda Airport on the morning of the 12th without responding to the request.
Kazuo Miyasaka, a 70-year-old unemployed person in Zama City, hid the purpose of handing it over to the staff of the Russian Trade Representative in Japan, registered as a member of a service that provides copies of treatises, etc. I was arrested for getting it.
He admitted to the investigation and stated that he had "passed the literature to the Russians for about 30 years."
According to the investigation so far, the document was handed over to a male employee in his 40s of the Russian Trade Representative in Japan, who is believed to be a Russian intelligence officer, and police requested him to appear through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 9th of this month. ..
However, according to investigators, he left Haneda Airport on a passenger plane bound for Moscow on the morning of the 12th without responding to the request.
Police believe that officials were also involved in the unauthorized acquisition of the literature and will investigate further details.
Regarding this incident, the Russian Embassy in Japan posted on SNS on the 12th, "I am embarrassed by the information from the Japanese police that the staff of the Russian Trade Representative was doing illegal activities. In the meantime, I am also paying attention to the unreasonable criticism of the staff of the Trade Representative who have been engaged in the development of trade and economic relations. "