MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - Allegations of a German intelligent officer selling top secret data to the US are serious, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters Monday.
"If the reports are correct, it would be a serious case," Merkel said at a press conference in Beijing.
The day before, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that prompt clarification of the details in the double agent case were in the US’s own interest.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere also called on the US to make quick and clear statement clearing up the "very serious" accusations, according to Bild newspaper.
On Thursday, German authorities arrested a Federal Intelligence Service (BND) agent, who allegedly sold at least 300 top secret documents from the BND's computer system to the United States.
German’s Federal Foreign Office summoned the US ambassador to Berlin to swiftly "clarify" the case.
The arrest came a year after the leaked documents revealed that US National Security Agency was monitoring Germans’ electronic data, including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone.
