Paul Nicholas Whelan is a Canadian with American, British, and Irish citizenship. He was arrested in Russia on the 28th of December 2018, and accused of spying. On the 15th of June 2020, he received a 16-year prison sentence with the possibility of time in a labour camp. He is described as a corporate security director.
Paul Whelan parents: Who are his father and mother?
Whelan is currently 52 years old and was born on the 5th of March 1970 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to British parents with Irish heritage.
We could not get hold of his parent’s identities, they could be called Mr and Mrs Whelan. Any updates on his parents will be published here immediately.
He has a twin brother named David Whelan, a brother Andrew and a sister Elizabeth.
He is a citizen of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. His twin brother David ascribed Paul’s acquisition of the passports to “probably a genealogical interest as much as anything”.
He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and raised partly in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan where he and his twin brother David graduated from Huron High School in 1988. David said the family had not known Paul had a bad conduct discharge.
Paul lived in Novi, Michigan, before their detainment in Russia.
