Скачать или смотреть Spy Exchange at the Russian-Estonian Border (September 2015)

A spy exchange between Russia and Estonia takes place on a bridge between the two countries.

In 2012, a high-ranking officer of the Estonian Internal Security Service (known as KaPo) named Alexsey Dressen was arrested at Tallinn Airport by Estonian counterintelligence agents. His wife Victoria was about to board a flight to Moscow with a thumb drive of classified documents intended for delivery to the FSB. Dressen was convicted of treason by the Estonian courts and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Two years later in September 2014, another KaPo officer named Eston Kohver was arrested by Russian border guards, who claimed he had crossed over from Estonia for a secret meeting with a Russian informant in a forested region. Hidden camera footage appeared to show Kohver handing over money in exchange for information from an informant, just before a flashbang type device explodes and he is taken into custody.

Estonian authorities claim that Kohver was actually kidnapped from the Estonian side of the border during the course of his normal duties conducting criminal investigations. The case caused a significant uproar throughout Estonia and internationally as well.

Finally a year later, a prisoner exchange was arranged between the two countries. In September 2015 representatives from both countries met in the middle of a bridge over the Piusa River. Dressen was handed over to Russia while Kohver was returned to his own government after a year's confinement.

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