Swiss alleged to have spied inside German tax office

German investigators believe a mole spied for the Swiss intelligence service inside a German tax office, which was trying to catch German tax dodgers.  On Thursday, Swiss and German media published new details surrounding the case of an alleged Swiss spy arrested last week for industrial espionage in Frankfurt.  Swiss public television, SRF, which had access to extracts of the German arrest warrant, claimed the Swiss suspect, a former policeman and employee of the UBS bank, had listened to German financial authorities for the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS).  The man is suspected of searching for data on tax evaders and, together with an intelligence firm, placing a mole who allegedly spied inside North Rhine-Westphalia’s finance ministry.  Investigators suspect that the mole – not yet identified – gave the Swiss spy the names of tax investigators, and that the FIS ran the operation. The service is said to have paid EUR90,000 (CHF97,600) for planting the mole.  ...

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