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Pro-Russian spies planned the kidnapping or murder of a journalist who worked with Navalny
In the UK, a case has begun against a spy network that included Bulgarian citizens. They are accused of spying for Russia, in particular of persecuting investigative journalist Hristo Grozev, who collaborated with Alexei Navalny and worked with him on the investigation into his poisoning. This was reported by the BBC and The Guardian .
The Guardian writes that the network included Bizer Dzhambazov, Orlin Rusev, Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanchev. The defendants allegedly collaborated with a number of other individuals who spied for Russia between 2020 and 2023 in London, Vienna, Valencia, Montenegro and Stuttgart.
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“For almost three years they tried to collect information for the benefit of Russia, an enemy of Great Britain, information about various targets, both people and physical objects. The information was of particular interest to the Russian state. Their activities caused clear and imminent harm to the security and interests of the United Kingdom,” said Alison Morgan, prosecuting.
According to her, the defendants conspired with Russian agent Jan Marsalek, known as “Rupert Tietz” and allegedly an Austrian citizen, to obtain materials useful to Russia.
The publication writes that Marsalek and Rusev exchanged messages in which they discussed “options” regarding Hristo Grozev. The BBC writes that they planned to kill or kidnap him and take him to Moscow, and also put recruited people next to Grozev on the plane, take away his laptop, take him to the Russian embassy, burn his property, or infiltrate someone into the Bellingcat project. led by the investigator.
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Other targets of the spy network were editor-in-chief of The Insider Roman Dobrokhotov, Kazakh politician Bergey Ryskaliev, who was granted political asylum in the UK, and former Investigative Committee employee Kirill Kachur, who was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia in 2023.
Members of the spy network are also suspected of planning subversion at the Kazakh embassy in London in September 2022 and surveillance at the US military base Patch Barracks in Stuttgart at the end of 2022
Rusev and Dzhambazov pleaded guilty to espionage; other defendants in the case deny the charges. The trial is expected to last until February next year.
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