A few weeks ago I wrote about how the US arrested several Aeroflot employees for smuggling electronics, and now Russia has arrested an Aeroflot employee for... treason?! A Russian court has ordered for the arrest of Dmitry Fedotkin, who is Aeroflot's station manager in London. He's being charged with treason, as the claim is that…
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It's such a kangaroo court over there it may as well be acquired by Qantas at this point.
Which aircraft ? Any new features ? Because I saw the business class seats on a newly delivered 788 but they are just the aerospace diamond seats that are already on the 789.
I'm just trying to figure out how a station manager had access to Russian state secrets. Unless he is only the courier, which is digital agent, is no longer needed.
There could be sensitive information about specific passengers that is present in Aeroflot’s system to make sure the passenger gets specific considerations (a list of ‘never IDB this person’ flagged passengers could be of interest) but definitely not supposed to passed along to border control services
...he was probably scooped up for sharing soft intel on persons of interest. The intel in turn is used to coerce the person of interest. SOP for intelligence services.
“Was the target traveling alone or was there someone else on the reservation?” Man, woman...is target having an affair? Is the target traveling with a younger man to exotic locales”. The list goes on... I’m just scratching the surface here.
What is with the first three comments on this topic, are they pro Russian intelligence and trying to sabotage this topic, LOL!
This dude has to be careful what he drinks or eat right now, you do not know where it ends..
So if he had access to the diplomatic names of those who travel under no name tickets into and out of the UK. They present a passport that has diplomatic immunity, and go. These "Special" passengers might also be the same ones who provided special tea to people of interest, that later ended up strangely dead. Just saying that if the agents who came to execute the special tasks flew in on Aeroflot then his direct knowledge shared to MI-5/6 might prove especially enlightening.
If the British security services wanted access to passenger lists there are far easier ways to get them than recruiting the station manager as an agent.
Airlines have to transmit passenger data to the Home Office as part of regular immigration processes on who is leaving the country.
MI5 comes under the Home Office. As does UK Border Force as does Special Branch (Counter Terrorism Command) all of which operate at Heathrow.
It would be pretty easy to intercept airport IT systems. Passenger manifests just get put in the bin instead of shreaded etc etc