Italy Orders 2 Russian Embassy Officials Expelled for Spying

Italy Orders 2 Russian Embassy Officials Expelled for Spying
A view of the Russian Embassy in Rome, Italy, on March 31, 2021. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo
The Associated Press
Updated:

ROME—Italy ordered two Russian Embassy officials expelled Wednesday and arrested an Italian Navy captain on spying charges after police caught the officer allegedly giving classified documents to one of the Russians in exchange for money.

Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told a joint session of the Italian Parliament’s foreign relations committees that the documentation concerned NATO information and that the incident was a “hostile act of extreme gravity.”