A Moscow court has sent a Russian citizen who works for French company Bonduelle to a pre-trial detention centre on suspicion of unlawfully obtaining information constituting a state secret, the TASS news agency reported on Monday.
Citing a source in the Russian law enforcement services, TASS said the employee Dmitry Blinov works for Bonduelle-Kuban LLC – an operation in Russia's southern region of Krasnodar of plant-based food producer Bonduelle. It said he will be held in the detention centre until Sept. 25.
Bonduelle in France confirmed to Reuters that it employed Blinov and said the company was willing to help the judicial authorities with their investigation, but that its activities were entirely unrelated to state secrets.
