Overview

• Austria’s domestic intelligence service DSN investigated the long-time OMV employee after meetings with a Russian diplomat raised suspicion.
• Prosecutors opened a criminal case, and the suspect remains at liberty while the inquiry continues.
• OMV said it immediately severed ties with the employee following the seizure of numerous internal documents.
• The Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian chargé d’affaires and requested that Moscow waive the diplomat’s immunity or face expulsion as persona non grata.
• Reports say the employee had been seconded to Adnoc in the UAE, giving him insight into OMV, Adnoc and the planned Borealis–Borouge petrochemicals merger, with investigators still assessing scope and possible accomplices.