
8 months after the arrest of 3 Russian citizens and 1 from Ukraine at the Arms Plant in the Czech Republic of Gramsci, the Albanian authorities have strong doubts that we are dealing with a real case of Russian espionage.
After the failure of the scientific police, the prosecution has sent their mobile devices to a specialized company for the second time to obtain the communications that the Russians had. The prosecution does not deny reasonable suspicions that Svetlana Timofevaa, Mikhail Zorin, Fyodor Mihailovic and Fedis Alpatov from Ukraine are agents recruited by Russian intelligence.
We remind you that 1 month ago, the Court rejected Russia's request to extradite the 33-year-old Russian, Timofevaa, accepting the latter's request to stay in Albania.
The 4 arrested continue to be held in cells even after their continuous requests for bail.
They were stopped on the evening of August 20 of a year ago in Cekin, Gramsci, inside the weapons factory in this city, after they were spotted by 2 soldiers, filming the interior of the factory. To avoid arrest, one of them attacked soldiers Ardian Xhaka and Aldi Bici with a paralyzing spray.
And yet, this is not the first case that in the territory of the Republic of Albania there is history with spies. In 2021, 4 members of the same family lost their lives under mysterious circumstances in a hotel in Kavaja.
Nataliia and Sergei Burenkov, their daughter Ekaterina Burenkova and her partner Nikita Belousov, were found dead in the basement of the pools.
For the event, the authorities also conducted investigative experiments with NATO partners, while the suspicions are that the family members were poisoned after their trip to Ohrid and died in the resort premises.