THE HAGUE: East Timor has dropped litigation related to a spying scandal against its powerful neighbor Australia at the United Nations’ highest court.

The move came after Australia returned documents its agents seized from a lawyer working for the tiny former Indonesian island. The International Court of Justice announced the decision Friday, saying that Australia and East Timor wrote to judges last month confirming that “Australia had returned the documents and data” seized in a December 2013 raid.

The raid followed claims by a former Australian spy that his country bugged the East Timorese government ahead of negotiations on the Timor Sea Treaty that carves up revenue from oil and gas under the sea between the two countries.

In March last year, the world court banned Australia from using the documents.