VILNIUS - Lithuania has arrested a man suspected of espionage, state radio reported on Saturday. The man, who was detained in a joint operation between Lithuanian and Polish security services, is a citizen of Belarus, Polish public television said on its Web site.Polish national prosecutor Janusz Kaczmarek was quoted as saying that the arrested man has acted ‘against Polish economic and defence interests for some time’. He did not elaborate. Both the Lithuanian State security department and Foreign affairs ministry declined to comment.
The arrest follows the expulsion in October by Lithuania of a senior Russian diplomat also accused of espionage, and comes days before a NATO summit in neighbouring Latvia. Russia denied that the diplomat was involved in spying.