Overview

• Viru County Court found Igor Lobin guilty on September 25 of collaborating with the Russian security service and spying against Estonia.
• Investigators say his reporting since 2017 covered Estonia’s defense and internal security, activities of security forces, military exercises, volunteer units, and the school language transition, as well as crisis readiness.
• KaPo’s Taavi Narits said Lobin worked as a technical inspector without access to classified material and used a separate phone to contact a handler listed as a fishing-tackle seller.
• Security officials reported seizing more than 300 St. George ribbons from his home, a symbol Estonia associates with Russian aggression.
• The verdict can be appealed, and in July a separate Narva resident received a 6.5-year sentence in a related security-transfer case.