Norway sued over ‘risky’ spy recruitment
A concrete producer took the Norwegian state to court yesterday claiming the intelligence agencies’ clumsy approach to recruiting informants had caused the company financial loss. At Oslo district court, concrete manufacturer Olen Betong accused the Norwegian internal (PST) and external (E-tjeneste) intelligence services of contacting two employees working in the Murmansk region in order to turn them into informants. The company, with business in Russia’s north-west, said the intelligence services had made repeated indiscrete contact over the last decade, which was spotted by Russian government agencies. Olen Betong claimed this led to the loss of an important contract in Russia and legal trouble for company founder Atle Berge and employee Kurt Sto.
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