Iran’s foreign ministry reportedly said Sunday that an ex-FBI agent who has been missing since 2007 has no criminal case pending in any court in the nation, and that his whereabouts are still unknown.

Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told reporters that an open case within the Revolutionary Court concerning Robert Levinson “was a missing person” filing, not a prosecution against the agent, according to The Associated Press, which reported on Saturday that a case existed after retrieving a filing Iran made to the United Nations.

Mousavi told reporters on Sunday that Levinson “has no judicial or criminal case in any Islamic Republic of Iran court whatsoever,” the news service noted.

“It is normal that a case is opened like it’s done for any missing people anywhere in Iran,” it added.

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