MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. Norwegian national Frode Berg, convicted of espionage in Russia, has been handed over to Norwegian officials in Lithuania, the Norwegian Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement.
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg pointed out that Oslo had been working on Frode Berg’s return since the day of his arrest.
Berg is expected to return home in the near future.
In October, Lithuanian media outlets said that Vilnius and Moscow were getting ready to conduct a spy swap, while Norwegian media informed that Berg had been included in the swap list. On Friday morning, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda pardoned Russian nationals Nikolai Filipchenko and Sergei Moiseyenko, convicted of spying for Russia. A few hours later he announced that Lithuania and Russia had carried out a spy swap.
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