The identity of one of the persons arrested for espionage activities conducted by the French Foreign Intelligence Service in Azerbaijan has been revealed. His name is Martin Ryan.
Publika.az reports that the Armenian-born French journalist Leo Nicolian informed about this on his official page on the “X” (former Twitter) social platform on January 7.
He noted that M. Ryan was arrested in Baku on December 4. Martin Ryan, CEO of Mercorama LLC, is accused of espionage. He was used (manipulated) by agents of France’s 2nd DGSE (General Directorate of Foreign Intelligence), who forced him into secret cooperation and were later expelled from Baku.
It is known that M.Ryan, a French citizen, was arrested on December 4 for espionage for the benefit of French intelligence, and is currently in prison in Baku.
It should be noted that according to the information previously published in the western media, as a result of the investigations and arrests carried out by the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan in early December 2023, various countries in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia were arrested. A wide agency network of the French special services involved in the operations was exposed in Azerbaijan.
In a short period of time, dozens of French secret agents, some of whom served in Azerbaijan at that time or earlier, and some of whom continued to work undercover in various countries and prestigious international organizations, were discovered.
The Azerbaijani side has not yet made an official statement regarding the mentioned arrests.
As it is known, on December 20, 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the head of the French Directorate General of External Security (DGSE), Bernard Emien.
Nikolas Lerner, who headed the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), was appointed the new head of the Foreign Intelligence structure.
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