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> Dutch high-tech companies are unknowingly selling their technologies to companies set up by the Russian secret service, the head of the Dutch military secret service has told the Financieele Dagblad. MIVD chief Jan Swillens told the paper in an interview that the Russian military intelligence organisation GRU has set up front organisations and companies with the aim of purchasing technology in the Netherlands and smuggling it to Russia for military purposes, thus evading sanctions.

> In March, the foreign affairs ministry expelled 17 Russian diplomats for espionage, some of whom worked for GRU and were tasked with purchasing knowledge and technology for the Russian army.

> 'There is very little sense of the Russian interest in our technology and political knowledge,' he said.

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