An unidentified Dutch diplomat is one of three men suspected of having an affair with a Russian spy, writes the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday.

The names of the Dutch diplomat and a high ranking German Nato official were requested by the paper but withheld on the orders of the judge who is presiding over the deportation case of the woman at the centre of the scandal, 26 year-old Katia Zatuliveter. To reveal the names could ‘damage international relations’, the judge said.
The diplomat is said to work as ‘an adviser to a prominent European royal family’ and has formerly held an important post ‘at the seat of government in another leading European nation’.
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The Dutch diplomat, referred to by the letter L, met the then 18-year-old Russian student at a European-Russian congress in St Petersburg in 2004, writes the Volkskrant.
‘The diplomat wined and dined her, took her to the theatre and ultimately into his bed’, the paper writes. The fact that she wasn’t a prostitute as he’d originally thought became evident when he tried, in vain, to pay her.
Zatuliveter was arrested in Britain last year and questioned by M15 and M16 on suspicion of spying. Teresa May, the British home secretary, announced she would be deported on the grounds that her presence was ‘not conducive to national security.’
The Russian, who is fighting her extradition at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission and denies spying, was found to be in contact with two Russian embassy officials in London. On one of the official’s cards she had scribbled the letters ‘KGB’.
The case continues.