5 individuals have been charged with spying for Russia within the UK. Orlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on Tuesday, a BBC report stated.
The Bulgarian nationals have been accused of conspiring to assemble info on the UK, and the offences passed off between August 2020 and February 2023. “The costs comply with an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command,” Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated, Al Jazeera reported.
The defendants are stated to have labored in an operational spy cell for the Russian safety providers, which included them conducting surveillance on targets. Roussev, Dzhambazov and Ivanova have been charged in February with “possession of false identification paperwork with improper intention”, the CPS stated. They possessed passports and false identification paperwork for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Czech Republic.
Roussev moved to the UK in 2009 and labored in a technical function in monetary providers. Britain, in July, handed a nationwide safety regulation in a bid to take more durable motion on exterior safety threats.
Dzhambazov and Ivanova moved to the UK round a decade in the past, and ran a group organisation offering providers to Bulgarian individuals.