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Britain sentences three Bulgarians to prison for spying for Russia

2025-03-07 18:29:04Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Britain sentences three Bulgarians to prison for spying for Russia
Bulgarian spies of Russia

Three Bulgarian citizens accused of spying for Russia have been found guilty after a court heard how they were involved in a series of plots around Europe run by a Moscow-based fugitive.

After more than 32 hours of deliberations, a jury at the Old Bailey reached unanimous verdicts for Katrin Ivanova, 33, a laboratory technician, Vanya Gaberova, 30, a beautician, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, a painter and decorator, all of whom lived in London before their arrests.

The three were convicted as new members of a spy ring led by Jan Marsalek, an Austrian businessman who had fled to Russia in 2020 after a company he helped run went bankrupt following a €1.9 billion fraud.

Marsalek led the hostile surveillance of Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist who helped implicate Russian spies in the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Bulgaria, Austria and Spain. All three defendants were involved in the operation.

The spymaster also directed gang members, including Ivanova, to steal the cell phone numbers of Ukrainian troops believed to be training at a US barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, using a military-grade eavesdropping device that had not previously been seen in the hands of criminals.

Marsalek communicated directly with the ring leader, Orlin Roussev, 47, from Great Yarmouth, who in turn ran the surveillance activities from a former guesthouse in the coastal Norfolk town. The building was packed with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of electronic and surveillance equipment.

Roussev has already pleaded guilty to espionage charges, as has his friend and deputy, Bizer Dzhambazov, 43. But the other three members had denied the espionage charge, leading to a trial that lasted nearly three months.

The court also heard that Dzhambazov had been in a relationship with the two girls, Ivanova, his long-term partner, and Gaberova for a year and a half before their arrest. The third defendant, Ivanchev, was Gaberova's ex-boyfriend.

All three were found guilty of conspiracy, contrary to section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977. It carries a maximum prison term of 14 years.

Of the three defendants, only Ivanchev was in court. The two women were present via video link from.


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