Posted on 08/28/2020 5:07:44 AM PDT by texas booster
Ambassador Rune Resaland on Friday got the message from the Russian Foreign Ministry that one of his senior staff will have to leave Russia in the course of 72 hours.
The expulsion comes as a response to Norway’s expulsion of Aleksandr Stekolshchikov, the Deputy Head of the Russian trade mission in Oslo.
“In connection with the unfriendly act of Norwegian authorities announced on the 18th August when a Russian diplomat was made persona non grata, Norwegian Ambassador in Moscow Rune Resaland was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be informed that a senior Norwegian diplomat at the Norwegian Embassy is also made persona non grata,” a statement from the Russian ministry reads.
According to NRK, it is embassy Counsellor Jan Flæte that now has to leave the Russian capital. The diplomatic rang of Flæte is believed to be significantly higher than the one of Aleksandr Stekolshchikov and his expulsion is consequently seen by the Norwegian side as an escalation of the situation.
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The embassy trade representative reportedly received secret information from Norwegian citizen Harsharn Singh Tathgar. The two men were taken by suprise by police during a meeting in a cafe in Oslo.
Tathgar originally comes from India and has since 2012 been employed in the energy division of DNV GL.
His field of work is within 3D printing.
The Chinese are not the only ones looking to leapfrog technological advances by employing shortcuts.
3D printing? With new large scale laser and sputtering techniques, entire rocket parts can be made. This is not just a plastic sample part under consideration.
He is now put in custody for four weeks charged with violations of Articles 123 and 124 in the Norwegian criminal code, which implies that he has conducted grave disclosure of state secrets.
Dramatic detention
The arrest of Tathgar was made as he met with the Russian agent at a restaurant in Oslo. Guests at the place have told newspaper VG that the detention was followed by a dispute between the police officers and the Russian diplomat.
The police representatives demanded that the Russian gives them his briefcase. But he rejected and the police subsequently took it with force.
The restaurant guests told VG that the police officers whispered to Tathgar and the diplomat requesting them to cooperate. They reportedly also said “Where did you hide it?”.
Under normal circumstances, diplomatic immunity disallows the police to look through personal belongings of foreign embassy employees.
They have H-1B visas in Norway?
India to the UK and from there to almost anywhere, courtesy of the Commonwealth.
And many of them are good engineers.
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