A general view of the city centre skyline showing residential housing and commercial buildings in Vienna, Austria, February 10, 2022. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
VIENNA (Reuters) - A former Austrian domestic intelligence official with alleged ties to a fugitive former executive of collapsed German payments company Wirecard has been detained on suspicion of spying.
Egisto Ott, an ex-employee of the now defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT), was arrested on Friday with another person, according to a spokesperson for the Vienna public prosecutor's office.
