London: A Russian woman having an affair with a British member of parliament won her fight to stay in Britain Tuesday after accusations against her being a spy were dismissed by an immigration tribunal.
Katia Zatuliveter, 26, worked as a parliamentary aide and had an affair with her boss, Mike Hancock, 65, a lawmaker of Liberal Democrats.
British authorities had sought to expel her, accusing her of using her access to parliament to spy for Moscow. Her deportation was overruled at a hearing behind closed doors by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) Tuesday.
“Our conclusion, at least on the balance of probabilities, is that she was and is not a Russian agent,” official court documents said.
The Home Office, which had ordered her expulsion, said it was disappointed by the ruling.
“It was an absolutely horrifying experience and I’ve simply lost a year of my life. I couldn’t do anything – lots of people believed I was a spy simply because the British government said so,” Zatuliveter said.
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