MOSCOW, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — A Japanese diplomat primarily based in Russia’s far jap metropolis of Vladivostok is being expelled after being detained for espionage, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) introduced on Monday.
A consul of the Consulate General of Japan in Vladivostok was “detained red-handed while receiving, for a money reward, information of limited distribution about the current aspects of Russia’s cooperation with one of the Asia-Pacific countries, including the impact of Western sanctions on the economic situation in (Russia’s) Primorsky Territory,” an FSB assertion learn.
The Minister Counselor of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday and was knowledgeable that the consul in query should depart Russia inside 48 hours for actions incompatible with the standing of a consular officer and detrimental to Russia’s safety pursuits, the ministry stated in an announcement.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has lodged a powerful protest over the incident to the Japanese facet.