UK announces arrest of espionage suspect arrested in Cyprus last year

London’s metropolitan police on Friday announced the arrest of a 44-year-old man who was arrested in Cyprus last year, accused of having spied on both the British Royal Air Force’s base at Akrotiri and the National Guard’s Andreas Papandreou airbase in Paphos.

The man, a dual British and Azerbaijani national, was initially arrested in June last year by the Republic of Cyprus’ authorities, with it widely understood that the intelligence which led to his arrest was sourced from the State of...