Smugglers, spies & escapes · 22.02.2012
A traitor caught at Tallinn Airport
On the morning of 22 February 2012 Aleksei Dressen, a senior specialist of the Estonian Internal Security Service, and his wife Viktoria were arrested here at Tallinn Airport as she was about to board a plane to Moscow. A data carrier was seized as evidence. Dressen had joined the security police in 1993 and had risen to head several of its units despite repeated reprimands. The court found that he had worked for the Russian FSB for a long time. On 3 July 2012 Harju County Court convicted him of treason and passing on internal information and sentenced him to 16 years. In 2015 he was exchanged for the Estonian officer Eston Kohver.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
22. veebruari 2012 hommikul vahistati siin Tallinna lennujaamas kaitsepolitsei juhtivspetsialist Aleksei Dressen ja tema abikaasa Viktoria, kes oli minemas Moskva lennukile. Asitõendina konfiskeeriti teabega andmekandja. Dressen oli asunud kaitsepolitseisse tööle 1993. aastal ja tõusnud korduvatele noomitustele vaatamata mitme struktuuriüksuse juhiks. Kohtuotsuse järgi töötas ta pikka aega Venemaa FSB heaks. 3. juulil 2012 tunnistas Harju maakohus ta süüdi riigireetmises ja asutusesisese teabe edastamises ning karistas teda 16-aastase vangistusega. 2015. aastal vahetati ta Eesti kaitsepolitseiniku Eston Kohvri vastu.