A British citizen has been detained and expelled from the territory of occupied Abkhazia after being accused by the region’s de facto security services of links to a foreign intelligence agency.

The information was released by Abkhazia’s so-called State Security Service.

According to the de facto agency, the British citizen, Kuldip Singh, allegedly used existing connections and contacts in Abkhazia to develop a project that would allow him to obtain information about the locations of Russian and Abkhaz military facilities and other infrastructure in the so-called “republic.”

The de facto State Security Service claims that during questioning, the foreign national stated that he had worked for approximately 13 years in the intelligence department of a unit within the British police.

“He entered the republic from Georgia. The Sokhumi City Court ruled that the British citizen’s presence in the country was undesirable,” the de facto State Security Service said.