Bohemia Interactive Employees' Alleged Espionage Arrest On Lemnos
As reported by Greek media on September 10 2012, two Czech nationals were arrested on Lemnos and charged of espionage. They have claimed to be working for Bohemia Interactive collecting pictures and video footage for the development of Arma 3; their names are Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar, their employee status under Bohemia Interactive has been confirmed but the company has later officially stated that they were on the island "with the sole purpose of experiencing the island's beautiful surroundings".It has to be noted that according to Greek law taking photographs et cetera of military installations is strictly prohibited for reasons of national security and that the issue of this game causing potential threats to Greek national security had been brought officially to the Greek Parliament and discussed therein already in 2011.It should also be noted that, after the arrest incident, Bohemia Interactive shut down access to a thread named Greek Military started on August,1st 2012 on their official forum warning them and discussing legal and other problems concerning inter alia photographing and realistic depictions of Greek military installations; a Google cache of it as it appeared on September,4th 2012 though is still available.
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