French ex-naval officer behind Scorpene leak?

August 25, 2016 09:11

A former French naval officer working as a sub-contractor for the firm DCNS might be behind the leak of data which were written in France in 2011, according to a report in The Australian.

The data may have then been taken to a company in Southeast Asia, possibly to assist in a commercial venture for a regional navy, said the report.

The leaked data was subsequently passed by a third party to a second company in the region before being sent on a data disk to a company in Australia. It is unclear how widely the data has been shared in Asia, said the report.

Meanwhile, France on Wednesday said it has taken "very seriously" the issue of leak of sensitive documents on advanced submarines being built for the Indian Navy and would work with India very closely with transparency.

As the Scorpene data leak report broke out shaking the Indian defence establishment, French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler said in Bengaluru that French authorities were trying to assess the extent, nature and sensitivity of information that may have been leaked.

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