Islam Times - The Russian Foreign Ministry has revealed new details about the expulsion of Israeli Defense Attaché Colonel Vadim Leiderman.

Islam Times reports from AFP: Leiderman was arrested on May 12 trying to obtain details about Russia's arms trade with the Arab world, the ministry said on Friday, quoting the country's Federal Security Service (FSB).The Soviet-born Israeli Air Force Colonel was "caught red-handed" doing the deal, the FSB statement issued on Friday.Leiderman had approached "a number of Russian state workers for secret information about Russia's military and technological cooperation with -- and assistance for -- a number of Arab nations," the statement said.It added that Russia had decided to keep the expulsion secret as a "gesture of goodwill."But the Israeli media leak left it "seriously perplexed," the FSB said.RBC television channel later aired footage of Leiderman being approached by several men while he was dining with another man in a Moscow restaurant.The TV also showed the Israeli official being interrogated, with his various accreditation and bank cards being laid out on a table for the camera.Leiderman was deported last week.Israel said the brief detention, investigation and expulsion appeared to have breached his diplomatic immunity.