OTTAWA, June 3 (Itar-Tass) -- Former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov, whom the court ruled to deport to Russia on Wednesday, has been hiding at a Vancouver church since Tuesday, Canada’s CBC Television reported.

The deportation of Lennikov, 48, became inevitable after Justice Russell Zinn left unchanged the decision made by the Canadian Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness that Lennikov, who allegedly worked as an interpreter in the eighties, cannot stay in Canada any longer. The Federal Court judge ruled that Lennikov’s fears that in Russia he will face arrest and high treason accusations are not quite grounded. Lennikov’s expulsion is needed to keep up the trust of Canadian citizens in the efficiency of the immigration law, Zinn said.

Lennikov has lived with his wife and a 17-year-old son in Vancouver for 11 years and applied for a permanent residence permit in autumn 2008. After that the deportation case was instituted versus Lennikov. Last March his wife and his son were permitted to stay in Canada, but Lennikov was ordered to fly from Vancouver to Vladivostok on Wednesday, June 3.