The betrayal Poteeva continues
The case is heard in closed session. Poteev is charged with treason (article of the Criminal Code 275) and desertion (article 338) in absentia. A board consisting of three judges was appointed, the prosecution is brought by an employee of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the defense is served by a lawyer by appointment. While the MOVS is considering evidence of guilt, then the interrogation of the alleged witnesses will follow. According to preliminary data, the sentence for Poteev could be a 20-one-year prison sentence. However, according to representatives of the special services, the search for a traitor has not been announced, and this does not make much sense.
In an interview with Rosbalt, an officer of the SVR explained that Poteev’s flight forced the system to take enhanced security measures against their charges. The fact of ownership of real estate abroad by SVR employees and their relatives is checked, and a temporary ban on travel outside the Russian Federation is imposed until the audit is completed.
After delivering his illegal agents, who were personally supervised by Poteev, the traitor began to transmit information about the Russian “moles” to the US special services, revealed their pseudonyms, indicated the American departments of their work, the places where they receive secret information. Poteev's exact data was unknown, so the US intelligence agencies launched a search for Russian spies in their various structures.
The results of the betrayal Poteeva for a long time will be felt in the SVR. It is urgently necessary to make changes to the US intelligence network in order to secure the people who remained there. Some kind of connection will have to temporarily "freeze." Sources in the Russian special services are convinced that Poteev’s betrayal was the result of pressure from his family. For several years, his wife and daughter Poteeva, who always sought to live in luxury and financial prosperity, persuaded him to cooperate with the Americans. As a result, the man could not stand it and at some point he broke down.
Earlier it was reported that Alexander Nikolayevich Poteev, born in 1952 in the Brest region of the Republic of Belarus in the family of Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Poteev, after serving in the Soviet army, was hired by the KGB of the USSR. In 70-ies married a girl Marina. Very quickly, Poteev went up the service ladder and soon moved with his wife to Minsk. 1979 year was marked by the birth of his daughter Margaret and admission to refresher courses officers. These courses were engaged in the preparation of special groups of the KGB. Poteev served in the Zenith, Cascade-1, Cascade-2 groups, participated in military operations in Afghanistan, received the award - the Order of the Red Banner. After Afghanistan, Poteev entered the Red Banner KGB Institute, after which he was accepted into the First Main Directorate of Foreign Intelligence of the KGB of the USSR. In 1982, the second child is born in the family of the Poteevs, the son Vladimir. Since the beginning of 90, Poteev has been working in a number of foreign countries, including and in America as a staff member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 2000, Poteev was appointed to the post of deputy head of the “C” department, which served as a supervisor for the activities of Russian illegal agents.
According to the official sources of the agency, it was worth paying attention to Poteev in 2001 year. At that time, his daughter Margarita studied at the International University in Moscow, which was created in 1991 by the joint decision of George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. As a student, Margarita is invited to work at the office of the American Councils on International Education in Moscow. And after a one-year internship, the girl is offered a prestigious job in America. When, in 2003, the apartment of the Poteevs was attacked by a gangster, Alexander's wife also moved to America. The country liked the women, but there was a constant lack of cash. Russian special services suggest that first the Americans recruited Poteev’s daughter Margarita, and later her father also began to cooperate with the American special services. Vladimir Poteev's son, who in 2005, with the light hand of his father, was employed at Rosoboronexport, could also work in favor of American intelligence.
Having received information from the colonel of the Russian special services, the Americans began to monitor Russian agents in the United States. They accompanied some of them for five to seven years, giving deliberately false information for subsequent shipment to Moscow. They quickly found out about new groups of agents who arrived in America. According to preliminary data, Poteev received such a sum of money for his work that he was able to purchase not just one cottage in America, but transferred the rest to a special bank account.
Already by 2010, the Russian special services suspected that there was a “mole” in the foreign intelligence system, which held a very high post. But in time to calculate and neutralize it did not work. The SVR was preparing a polygraph test of its employees for a lie detector. Knowing about the upcoming test, Poteev sent his son to America first, and in the summer of 2010 of the year, just before the Russian president’s visit to America, he made his own escape. In order not to arouse suspicion, the former official of the SVR explained his departure by a trip to his relatives in Belarus. Already from there he moved to one of the Baltic countries, and then to America. At the end of Medvedev's visit to the United States, a series of arrests of ten Russian agents occurred immediately, among which was Anna Chapman. Subsequently, the Russian authorities were able to exchange them for four agents detained in Russia and suspected of spying for the benefit of Britain and the United States.
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