Mark Bullen's British nationality has been revoked for security reasons, the Daily Mail reports
</p><div><p>According to the Daily Mail, a former British police officer who has lived in Russia for more than a decade has been stripped of his British citizenship after being deemed a security threat.
Mark Bullen, who worked for Hertfordshire Police for 11 years, received a letter from the Home Office last October informing him that his British nationality had been revoked on “national security” grounds, the outlet said in an article earlier this week.
According to Bullen, the decision of the British authorities let him down “completely shocked.”
“I absolutely deny that I am a threat to Britain. I find that comical… I’m sure it’s an overreaction. I have no idea why they targeted me,” said the 45-year-old, who moved permanently to Russia in 2014 and currently uses social media for football club Zenit Saint Petersburg.
The former police officer said yes “It’s hard to believe that a country like England, which is supposed to be about freedom, would behave in this way.”
Bullen was previously detained at Luton Airport when he arrived in Britain to visit his relatives in November 2024.
‘I was interrogated for four hours under the Terrorism Act’ he remembered.
The former police officers said his DNA and fingerprints were taken before he was released without charges.
He became a Russian citizen in 2022 and said he currently has no plans to return to Britain.
“At first I was worried, but when the dust settled I felt okay. I live in Russia, my family is here, I have four children, we have a pretty good lifestyle,” he explained.
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