Bulgarian spies detained in Britain worked on Russian special services agent - media

According to the investigation, the actions of the agency caused the interests and security of the United Kingdom. They were charged. The Bulgarian spies arrested in the UK worked on Jana Marsalek, which is directly related to Russian special services. About it reports The Insider. On September 26, 5 Bulgaria citizens were charged with the UK Magistrates Court of UK. They are accused of being gathering various important information for another country from August 2020 to February 2023.

This caused damage to the security and interests of London. In addition to espionage, they were also noticed in smaller crimes - possession of counterfeit documents. All these several years they lived and functioned in Britain: Biser Jambazov worked as a driver in hospital, Catherine Ivanova - a laboratory assistant at a clinic, Vanya Gaberova - a cosmetologist.

The investigation notes that the head of this gang, 45-year-old Orlyn Ruseva, was recruited by Jan Marsalek, one of the most wanted fraudsters in the world, who previously worked as an operating director of the German payment company Wirecard. In 2020, he escaped to Russia, and the next day the auditors noticed the disappearance of one and a half billion dollars from the company's account.

Also, since 2015, a man has been actively working with Russian special services and helped intelligence to create a PEC in African countries. In general, his shoulders had other delicate orders. Marsalek and Rusev started working together in 2014, after which four more citizens of Bulgaria joined them. "They were taught the use of spyware and encrypted communications to use it during the surveillance.