Estonia arrests suspected FSB agent accused of “computer-related crime”

Enlarge / A car preparing to cross from Estonia into Russia approaches the border control point on March 23, 2017 in Narva, Estonia. Estonia is a member of the European Union and shares its eastern border with Russia. (credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images))

Estonian authorities announced this week that they had recently arrested a Russian man suspected of being an agent of the Federal Security Service (FSB) who was allegedly planning "computer-related crime."

The 20-year-old man, whose identity was not made public, was arrested last weekend in the Estonian border city of Narva as he was trying to return to Russia.

On Thursday, Patrik Maldre, an Estonian analyst at FireEye, gave a brief translation of an account of the man's arrest in the Estonian newspaper, Postimees.

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