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A former Dutch foreign ministry worker has been jailed for 12 years for passing hundreds of sensitive political and military documents to Russia.

The 61-year-old spy, Raymond Poeteray, passed on documents which included details of Nato activity in Libya.

Poeteray was found guilty of passing information to a couple in Germany, who are also on trial accused of being Russian agents.

The couple, codenamed Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag, are said to have settled in then West Germany on false passports some 25 years ago.

They are accused of feeding information to the former Soviet Union and then Russia since then

One intriguing footnote about the case, our correspondent adds, is that Russian President Vladimir Putin worked for the KGB in Dresden through the 1980s when the couple are accused of beginning to spy for that very organisation.