An officer with Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND facing treason charges for allegedly spying for Russia has denied the accusations in court on Wednesday. The trial against Carsten L, a 53-year-old official who worked at the BND since 2007, has been under way for months. But the denial, voiced in court by L’s defence attorney, marks his first comments in the case. “The accused did not want to and did not betray the BND,” L’s lawyer, Johannes Eisenberg, told the court in Berlin. Prosecutors allege that L was paid €450,000 ($479,000) by Russia’s FSB secret service for betraying German s…