Indian-American national security expert and long-time United States adviser Ashley Tellis was on Saturday arrested and charged with illegally removing classified files from a government facility, CNN reported.
Tellis, who serves as a consultant with the US State Department, was taken into custody after investigators found more than a thousand documents with classified markings in his home in Virginia. He and his family were reportedly slated to fly to Rome on the day of the search.
Classified material was also found in three trash bags during a search conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the weekend, the South China Morning Post reported.
Tellis, a naturalised US citizen who was born in India, is a senior fellow at US-based think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
According to court records, some of the documents allegedly accessed and removed by Tellis pertain to Air Force tactics and techniques, CNN reported.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit made public on Tuesday stated that Tellis met with Chinese government officials multiple times over the past several years.
It was not immediately clear from the affidavit what information, if any, Tellis allegedly may have shared with Chinese officials.
Court filings said that in recent weeks, surveillance footage captured Tellis accessing and printing classified material, and removing it from government facilities, the South China Morning...
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