The U.S. Navy provided the indictment against petty officer Charles Briggs, who allegedly passed classified data to the Russians.
As reported in the document, the incident occurred in January of 2019 at the air force base Offal or close to it. Briggs, while in the service, “knowingly used a government computer with unauthorized purpose.” “He received secret information, namely an e-mail containing secret information”.
As alleged in the indictment, Briggs had “grounds” to believe that the data could “harm the United States or benefit another country”, reports TASS.
The document says that Briggs knowingly “gave such data to the” Russians, “a person who is not authorized to receive them”.
Briggs works in the area of information technology at the Medical center of the Navy in Portsmouth.
Recall, first, the allegations reported by the media, and the Pentagon refused to comment on the case.
