Man sentenced to 5 years in jail for spying for Russia

• Published date: 17 May 2022
• Publication title: LETA

Riga City Vidzeme District Court on Tuesday handed down a five-year jail sentence to Valentins Frolovs for spying for Russia, LETA learned.

The verdict was delivered at a closed court session. Frolovs was charged with illegally gathering information and handing it over to a foreign intelligence service. The man had been collecting information on the foreign intelligence service's instructions, LETA was told at the Court Administration.

The court found Frolovs guilty of espionage and sentenced him to five years in jail, plus three years under probation. The six months he spent in detention will be counted in his sentence.

The ruling of the district court can still be appealed before Riga Regional Court.

On May 8, Latvian Television reported that Frolovs, a contractor residing near Riga, was a Soviet military officer in the 1980s and for a...