The Russian Federal Security Service – commonly known as the FSB – said a man living in the southeastern city of Khabarovsk had been arrested after passing information to New Zealand spies.

Russia’s FSB security service said Monday that it arrested a man in the Far East city of Khabarovsk on accusations of spying for New Zealand.

Russia’s Federal Security Service reported that New Zealand sought to obtain from the detainee the data on Russia's military-technical cooperation with Asia-Pacific countries