The news was announced this week by energetyka24.com, which cited Germany’s Bild newspaper.
According to files seen by Bild, Steffen Ebert agreed “of his own volition” to supply information to the Stasi in August 1984, energetyka24.com reported.
He was regarded by the Stasi as “a reliable and honest informant,” Bild reported, as cited by energetyka24.com.
In May 1987, Ebert ended his cooperation with the secret police “for reasons of conscience,” according to Bild, energetyka24.com wrote.
Putin’s daughters
According to internal Nord Stream 2 documents obtained by Bild, “Ebert is considered the company’s main liaison with the Minister President of the Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Manuela Schwesig and the Land authorities,” the German daily said, as quoted by energetyka24.com.
Ebert, a long-time communications manager at Nord Stream 2, first met Schwesig in 2017, when she became the minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, energetyka24.com reported.
It was then that he also became acquainted with the CEO of Nord Stream AG, Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi major and a trusted associate of Vladimir Putin, according to energetyka24.com.
The Polish website said that it was Warnig who looked after the security of Putin’s daughters, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, when they moved from St. Petersburg to Germany in the 1990s.
'A victim of the system'
After Bild exposed his ties to Stasi, Ebert told the paper he regretted having acted as an informant for the secret police, energetyka24.com reported.
The website noted he was portraying himself “as a victim of the system.”
“Like many people in East Germany, I became an innocent victim of the system’s indoctrination and I expect it will be seen against the context of those times,” Ebert told Bild, as quoted by energetyka24.com.
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Source: energetyka24.com, bild.de