The Lithuanian citizen sentenced by a Russian court to 12 years in prison on espionage charges, has filed a petition to serve his sentence in his home country, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
The Lithuanian Justice Ministry received a request from the man and asked the Russian side to transfer him to Lithuania ?€?for the remainder of the sentence,?€? ministry spokesman Audris Kutrevicius said.
Aristidas Tamosaitis was detained on suspicion of espionage by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in May 2015. He later admitted he was a Lithuanian military intelligence officer and in March this year was given a 12-year sentence by the court.