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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/spy-case-aide-has-nothing-to-hide.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="MP Mike Hancock has denied his Russian assistant is a spy and insists she has 'nothing to hide'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-spy-case-aide-has-nothing-to-hide.jpg" alt="MP Mike Hancock has denied his Russian assistant is a spy and insists she has 'nothing to hide'"/></a></p>
<p>An MP has voiced support for his assistant, insisting the Russian has &#8220;nothing to hide&#8221; as she faces deportation for being a spy.</p>
<p>Liberal Democrat Mike Hancock challenged the security services to produce evidence against Katia Zatuliveter, who was arrested on Thursday morning and is currently being held at an immigration detention centre.</p>
<p>The 25-year-old, who came to the UK three years ago to study a masters degree at Bradford University, held a House of Commons pass and underwent security vetting before taking up her position as a full-time assistant two-and-a-half years ago. She worked previously for the MP as an intern.</p>
<p>She is appealing against the deportation order, which came after Home Secretary Theresa May was briefed by MI5 about the assistant&#8217;s alleged connection to Russia&#8217;s foreign intelligence service the SVR, The Sunday Times reported.</p>
<p>It emerged on Sunday that Ms Zatuliveter, who originates from Dagestan, was forced to flee her home as a child in the mid-1990s during the Chechnyan conflict, and an unnamed friend said she had been openly critical of Russia given her upbringing.</p>
<p>It is not known what prompted Ms Zatuliveter&#8217;s arrest but a source told The Sunday Times she is no longer welcome in the UK. &#8220;Her presence here is not considered to be conducive to national security. There was unhappiness about what she could have access to. The intention is to show her the door,&#8221; the source said.</p>
<p>Mr Hancock is a member of the Defence Select Committee and also represents the Portsmouth South constituency where the Ministry of Defence has significant naval interests.</p>
<p>In the last two months he has tabled a number of written questions to the MoD. Among them, he has asked for the locations of berths for submarines, a request to publish a historical inventory of the country&#8217;s nuclear arsenal and when the next design review of the Trident warhead will take place.</p>
<p>Mr Hancock says he tabled the written questions and his researcher would not have been privy to any information not in the public domain. He said he was &#8220;very interested&#8221; in defence issues and had asked similar questions throughout his career as an MP. There is no suggestion Mr Hancock has acted improperly.</p>
<p>Describing Ms Zatuliveter as &#8220;bright and intelligent&#8221;, Mr Hancock told Sky News: &#8220;I have no reason to believe she did any thing but act honourably during the time she was working for me.&#8221;</p>
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