Moscow in terms of “connected” two people at the UK embassy being expelled from Russia (PA Archive)
Two people linked to the British embassy in Moscow are expelled from the country days after three Bulgarians were convicted of the London Court as part of a Russian spy ring.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that two people connected to the British embassy in Moscow had ordered the country to leave to perform intelligence work.
It is understood that the two are a British diplomat and another husband.
Downting Street said that spy claims against both people “are baseless.”
TASS referred to FSB as saying that both people have deliberately announced false information about themselves when entering Russia and that FSB has revealed what was called “signs of intelligence and sabotage” by both Russian national security.
They gave two weeks to leave Russia.
There was no immediate comment from Britain.
On Friday, three Bulgarians in the London Court were convicted that it is part of a Russian spy unit run by Harband Harban Yan Marsalik to conduct surveillance for Karmlin in Britain and other European countries.
The timing raised suspicions that explorations from Moscow AE were in response to TAT.
The drawings of a tight artist from the Bulgarian citizens (from L) Catherine Ivanova, Vania Gabrova, Orlene Roussev, Ivan Stoyanov and Berzer Dhazmazov (PA Archive)
British prosecutors said that Marlek cost the British Bulgarian team to spy on the Ukrainian soldiers who were trained at an American base in Germany, with the aim of tracking their movements in the battlefield after the invasion of Russia in 2022.
It is required by the German authorities, Austria Marsalik, by the German authorities as a former CEO of the collapsed payment company in Wrakrad, accused of great fraud.
Prosecutors said that Marsalik, who was not known to his current existence, but is believed to be in Russia, also discussed journalists who kidnapped those who were criticizing the Kremlin and returning them to Russia.
“This was almost industrially spying on behalf of Russia, the Russian state, and Russian intelligence services,” Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the terrorist command at the London Police.
“We know that Marsalik was between this group and Russian intelligence services.”
Personal photo of Biser Dzhambazov and Vanya Gaberova (Metropolitan Police/PA) (PA Media)
There was no immediate comment from the Russian embassy in London, although the Kremlin always rejected such allegations of espionage.
The leader of the Bulgarian unit was Orlene Rousseff, 47, who with his deputy, Bishir Dahmabzov, 43, and another man, Ivan Stoyanov, was guilty of spying for Russia shortly before the trial, and he admitted to conspiring to collect information that aims to be directly or not specified for a return.
Prosecutors said that Rousseff paid Dahmabazov more than 200,000 euros (216,880 dollars), some of which were transferred to the defendants.
On Friday, a jury in the Old Billy Court in London found Catherine Ivanova, 43, Vania Gabrova, 30, and Thamir Ivanchif, 39, guilty of the same crime, while Ivanova also owned fake identity documents.
The two women told the jury that he had misled them, and the three claimed that they had no idea about the activity in which they participated, or that they believed that they were working for Interpol.
Their talks, which were in the midst of the prosecution case, contained half -baked plans and jokes on Russian operations on British soil, including the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergey Skripal in Salisbury, England.
Police said the evidence showed that the Bulgarians performed six dangerous operations under the instructions of Marsalik from 2021 to their arrest in 2023.
One of these was a plan to use IMSI hunter to intercept mobile phones signals in the correction barracks, an American base near Stuttgart, where Ukrainian forces are believed to train to use surface national missiles.
The couple later discussed the IMSI mask deployment plans in Britain in February 2023, shortly before the arrest of five spying.
Another process of spying on Christo Gressif, the Bulgarian who worked on the investigation site on the Belingcat website.
Grozev was the main investigator of Belingcat reports on Skripal poisoning. Public Prosecutor Alison Morgan said that Marsalik and Rossv discussed the theft of a Gruziv computer and may kidnap him and take him to Russia or even killing him.
The group also targeted the Roman Russian Russian Dubrokotov, the editor -in -chief of the Al -Mutamarin, Birji Rescuev, a former politician in Kazakh, asylum grants in Britain, and from the Russian dissident Kirill Cacor.
Morgan said that the sixth operation included the organization of a fake protest outside the Kazakh embassy in London, with the aim of enabling Russia to transfer information to Kazakh intelligence and gain Saleh with Kazakhstan.
Ivanova was convicted of having fake identity documents after many documents were found – including Belgian, Belgian and French passports carrying the image of Marsalik – at her home and Dhashambazov in northern London.
The police also regained 75 different passports and identity documents in 55 different names.
The trial heard Roussev and Dzhambazov referred to the other Bulgarians as “The Minions”, a clear indication of the small yellow characters in the Despablem Me series. A luxurious game was also found with a spy camera by the police.
The group will be sentenced to May, but Judge Nicholas Helerad warned them that they faced prison terms.
In February, the Foreign Ministry stripped a Russian diplomat from their adoption, as Foreign Minister David Lami said that the United Kingdom would be “uncomfortable” to stand up to Mr. Putin.
This step was in response to what the Foreign Ministry said was a “unfounded” decision to expel a British diplomat from Russia on suspicion of his conversion in November last year.
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