The 64-year-old expert, regarded as one of America’s leading voices on India, played a major role in the US-India civil nuclear agreement during the mid-2000s. Who is Ashley Tellis, Indian-origin foreign policy expert, arrested in US over links to China, illegally keeping classified files

Ashley Tellis, a well-known US foreign policy expert, has been charged with keeping highly classified defence documents and allegedly meeting Chinese officials several times, according to court papers reviewed by Hindustan Times. Tellis, born in India and now a naturalised US citizen, has been advising the US State Department since 2001. He was officially charged on October 13 in a Virginia district court for illegally holding national defence information, as per a criminal complaint filed by the FBI.

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