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The Special Prosecutor’s Office for High-Tech on Oct. 15 said that the criminal procedure against A.O. for disclosing trade secrets of defense industry company Krusik in Valjevo was conducted fully in compliance with law and regulations and not in secrecy.
The prosecution specified that the investigation was focusing on the activities that the suspect had undertaken from 2014 until the day the investigation opened. The office further said that the suspect as a Krusik employee “was illegally obtaining information of different levels of confidentiality about the company’s business operations and in relation to several defense products and with the intent to disclose it to an authorized person.”
The office added that the suspect had via computer communication transferred the information to a foreign national who has published some pieces of information on the Internet.
Based on a decision of a higher court in Belgrade, whistleblower, known by the initials A.O., having spent three weeks in jail was placed under home arrest on Oct. 14.
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