Moscow – Sputnik. The position of the head of the agency has been vacant since the end of 2024, when the former president, Thomas Haldenwang, resigned to run in the Bundestag elections but failed to win a parliamentary seat. According to the newspaper, the appointment will be officially announced on Monday in a letter from the Minister of the Interior to the office’s employees, and Celine will take the helm. Celine was born in Istanbul in 1972 to a family of journalists who moved to Germany when he was four years old. He studied law at the University of Cologne and worked as an administrative lawyer at the German Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Criminal Police Office before being appointed in January 2019 as one of the deputy heads of the Counterintelligence Agency. The newspaper explained that he renounced his Turkish citizenship only a few years ago.
