The federal prosecutor’s office in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said the 60-year-old German national identified only as Manfred K. was believed to have stolen “state secrets” for unidentified “third parties”.
“He is believed to have illegally acquired, as a Nato civilian employee, classified data belonging to his employer at the US armed forces’ air base at Ramstein and to have copied it onto his personal computer,” it said in a statement.