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The Foreign Ministry expelled two officials from the Russian embassy in the country from Colombian territory on December 8.
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This was confirmed by Juan Francisco Espinosa, director of the immigration authority. “On December 8, two foreign citizens of Russian nationality who were serving the embassy of that country in our territory left the national territory,” he said.
Espinosa asserted that the reasons that motivated this abandonment are foreign to Migración Colombia and are for state reasons.
“Given the circumstances in which these two people leave, in the short term they will not be able to return to the country,” he added.
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They are two Russian diplomats identified as Alexander Paristov, born on January 12, 1989, and Alexander Belousov, born on January 29, 1981. The men had been in the country for more than two years.
According to the information known by this newspaper, andThese people were developing intelligence activities. The warning about the illegal actions they were taking came through the National Intelligence Directorate.
Official sources indicated that the foreigners were in a process of recruiting sources and had already advanced that process in the city of Cali.
They added that in addition to military intelligence, they conducted economic intelligence and were interested in learning insider information on the exploitation of mineral resources.
(In context: For reasons of state, two Russian diplomats were expelled)
Juan Francisco Espinosa is director of Migration Colombia.
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In reciprocity, the Russian authorities have expelled two Colombian diplomats from the Russian capital to the country.
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According to this station, the presence of these two individuals in Colombian territory would be related to the situation in Venezuela and the upcoming elections in the country.
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