Authorities in Moscow have bought a British diplomat implicated of espionage to leave the nation, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday.The diplomat, recognized as Edward Pryor Wilkes, was presumably sent to Moscow to replace one of 6 British diplomats accused of spying in August, according to the FSB.The law enforcement agency declared Wilkes intentionally supplied false information when obtaining a permit to enter our nation, therefore breaking Russian law.
It also declared that his activities revealed signs of intelligence and subversive work threatening national security.Russias Foreign Ministry revoked the diplomats accreditation and purchased him to leave the nation within two weeks.
State media reported that Britains ambassador to Moscow was summoned over the allegations.In a declaration sent out to The Moscow Times, a British Foreign Office representative saidTuesdays expulsion order was not the first time that Russia has made destructive and unwarranted allegations against our personnel.
We will respond in due course.The FSB determined Wilkes as the second secretary in the British Embassys political department and said he was designated to Moscow through the U.K.
Foreign Offices Eastern Europe and Central Asia directorate.The agencyaccused the directorate of being transformed into an intelligence service charged with causing strategic defeat on Russia following its major invasion of Ukraine in 2022.