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Employee of Russian embassy in Bulgaria suspected of espionage has not left the country yet

| updated on 10/29/19 7:02 PM
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Russian ambassador to Bulgaria, Anatoly Makarov, has received a note by which Bulgaria insists that an employee at the Russian embassy, ​​whom the prosecutor's office and the SANS suspected of espionage, leaves the country within 24 hours.

The note was served at 10 o'clock this morning. On Friday, October 25, at a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian ambassador Anatoly Makarov was verbally told that Russian institutions should call back their official within 72 hours. On Monday the ministry said that according to their information, the diplomat had already left the country, but later it became clear that this had not happened. Official information indicates that the employee is first secretary of the Russian Embassy, ​​but the name of the diplomat has not been announced.

Russia said that the diplomat would leave the country within the deadline specified in the note and added it kept the right to respond to the measure.




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