Navy officer Biot gets 29 yrs for passing secrets to Russia

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 20 - Italian navy officer Walter Biot got a definitive sentence of 29 years for passing military secrets to the Russians on Wednesday.
    The judges of the first section of the supreme Court of Cassation definitively sentenced the 61-year-old Biot to 29 years and 2 months.
    The navy man was convicted of having given classified information in exchange for money to an official of the Russian embassy.
    Biot got 20 years in the first-instance trial last January, and appealed to the Cassation. (ANSA).