Forty-two-year-old Jonathan Toebbe was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, along with his 45-year-old wife, Diana, while placing a memory card in a pre-arranged “dead box.” They were accused of violating the Nuclear Energy Act, conspiracy and disclosure of classified information. They are due to appear in federal court in Martinsburg on Tuesday.
According to the ministry, last April, Toebbe sent a package of classified information to an unspecified country, whose intelligence offered his services. He later began selling military secrets for tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies to an FBI agent who pretended to be a foreign official.
He hid the data carriers in a sandwich and chewing gum
Toebbe once hid a memory card with recorded documents about submarine nuclear reactors in a peanut butter sandwich, which he left in a “dead box” while his wife “made a wall” for him. The documents on the card contained sensitive data on the design, data, and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarine reactors. Another time, he hid another memory card in a pack of gum.
Toebbe received a total of the equivalent of $ 100,000 (about 2.2 million crowns) in cryptocurrencies, the Ministry of Justice added.
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