Pevkur announced that the Internal Security Service official is safely back in Estonia. «As we want to give Eston the chance to first meet with his family, we will provide further comments in Tartu, at the South division of the Internal Security Service at 3 p.m.,» Pevkur was quoted by spokespeople as saying.

Estonian Internal Security Service officer Eston Kohver has been exchanged for a former officer of the Estonian security police Alexei Dressen convicted for transferring secret data to Russia, the public relations center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has said.

Estonia's Internal Security Service (ISS) said on Sept. 5, 2014 that a member of their staff had been deprived of his freedom on Estonian territory near the checkpoint of Luhamaa on the Estonian-Russian border and taken to Russia by unidentified individuals coming from Russia at 9 a.m. that morning. The security agent, who was performing his official functions related to the prevention of cross-border crime, was taken to Russia at gunpoint using physical force. The abduction was preceded by interference of operational radio communication and use of a smoke grenade from the direction of Russia, ISS said.