British YouTube travel star Benjamin Rich arrested at Baikonur Cosmodrome -Russia

-British YouTube journey blogger Benjamin Wealthy, who specialises in distant and typically harmful elements of the world, has been arrested on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the top of the Russian area company Roscosmos mentioned on Saturday.

Dmitry Rogozin mentioned in an internet publish that Wealthy – whose Bald and Bankrupt channel has 3.53 million followers – and Alina Tseliupa had been detained close to one of many launch pads at Baikonur, which Russia rents from Kazakhstan.

Native authorities have been figuring out “the precise stage of participation in unlawful actions” by the pair, mentioned Rogozin, who posted pictures of Wealthy’s visa and Tseliupa’s passport. A few of Wealthy’s movies characteristic a lady known as Alina but it surely was not instantly clear whether or not she and Tseliupa have been the identical individual.

The latest video on Wealthy’s channel was filmed in Syria and posted on April 24. In an Instagram publish final week, Wealthy mentioned “Syrian suntan and again in a rustic with Soviet mosaics” however didn't specify the place he was.

In London, Britain’s international ministry didn't have a direct remark.

Baikonur, as soon as a closed Soviet metropolis, is now open to vacationers who apply for permission from Roscosmos. It lies within the steppe round 1,100 km (680 miles) southwest of the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan.

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