By Reuters Staff
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had detained a serviceman and his brother in the country’s west for having allegedly passed state secrets to Estonia.
A criminal case has been opened for high treason, the FSB said.
The serviceman was detained in front of an apartment building in Smolensk, a city 365km west of Moscow, by three masked officers in military fatigues and dragged into a black van, FSB footage carried by Russian news agency TASS showed.
The FSB did not provide details of any information it had passed on to Estonian authorities.
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