MOSCOW, October 24 (RAPSI) – Hague police have detained a man suspected of burglarizing the apartment of a Russian consulate employee.

On Thursday, the police issued a statement explaining that a 43-year-old man had been detained on suspicion of burglarizing the Russian diplomat’s apartment. The man is set to appear before the court on Friday. The report says that the incident involving the Russian consulate employee bears resemblance to other reported break-ins in the same neighborhood.

Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans praised the Dutch police for establishing the burglar’s identity so quickly, in a post written in Dutch on his Facebook page late Friday – the same day that Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it expected the Netherlands to take “exhaustive” measures to find the culprit of the break-in in The Hague, which Dutch police had said Friday appeared to be an ordinary theft.

Traces of a break-in were discovered on October 17 at the apartment of an employee of the Russian Embassy who was away on holiday, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Tensions began simmering between the two countries after armed Russian border guards seized a Dutch-registered Greenpeace ship last month following an enviromental protest at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic. Russian authorities arrested all 30 people on board – including two Dutch nationals – and charged them with piracy.