Former KGB worker voluntarily leaves Canada after 6 years avoiding deportation

Mikhail Lennikov’s lawyer Hadayt Nazami says his client has concluded negotiations with Canadian border services and is no longer in the country.

Lennikov was ordered deported in 2009 but sought religious sanctuary in a B.C. Lutheran church, where he lived until recently.

Canadian immigration officials declared Lennikov a threat to national security because of his history working as a KGB translator in the 1980s.

Lennikov openly confessed his role with the infamous Soviet spy agency to the Canadian government in 1999 and said he did the work under pressure.

Nazami says Lennikov’s wife and son have become Canadian citizens.