Russia missile spy probe: Scientist held

Russian investigators have arrested an award-winning 74-year-old space scientist, who is suspected of passing missile secrets to a Nato country.

Viktor Kudryavtsev is in custody in Moscow, the state space agency Roskosmos confirmed.

On Friday security agents raided a Roskosmos research facility called TsNIIMash in Korolyov, near Moscow.

The alleged spying concerns hypersonic missiles, which fly at more than five times the