Overview

• Prosecutors filed charges alleging working for or supporting a foreign intelligence service, bribery, misuse of office and breaching official secrecy.
• Investigators say Ott collected secret and personal data from police databases between 2017 and 2021 for paid delivery to Marsalek and representatives of a Russian intelligence service.
• Authorities allege he supplied a SINA-S laptop used for EU secure communications to an intermediary for €20,000, who then handed it to a Russian agency.
• A second, unnamed police officer is charged with abetting by unlawfully sharing personal information, and both defendants face potential prison terms of six months to five years if convicted.
• Ott was arrested in March 2024 and later released by a court; he denies wrongdoing while Marsalek remains a fugitive linked to the Wirecard collapse.