Norway’s interior security service, PST, said on Sunday a Chinese man had been arrested in the country’s north for spying, just weeks after a Chinese woman was arrested suspected of spying on satellite data.
The suspect was arrested on Friday by the Nordland police district, Eirik Veum, PST’s media spokesman, told Agence France-Presse.
Veum said the man was suspected of “attempted illegal intelligence activities in Nordland”, but declined to provide further details on the nature of the activities.
On Sunday, a Norwegian court ordered that the suspect be remanded in custody for four weeks.
The man’s lawyer, Tor Haug, told news agency NTB that the man denied the offence.
On May 7, PST announced that a Chinese woman, suspected of spying on Norwegian satellite data, had been arrested.
