The incredible story of Maria Adel. The Russian Spy Spy has lived in Italy for years and was friends with NATO officers - investigation
A year later, Maria Adelie issued a Russian passport with the same name and date of birth in the same series as at least six other GRU staff, including the poisons of the Bulgarian weapons Omelyan Hebrev and former scout Sergei Skripal. Video of the day, the woman told her acquaintances that her mother-drunken, who raised her, threw her in 1980 in the USSR during the Olympic Games, after which she was looked after by the Soviet family. In 2009-2011, Maria Adela began to go to Europe.
The former British edition of Cosmopolitan Marseille D'Arji Smith, who considered a woman as a friend, said that she allegedly studied hemology in Rome, and in February 2011 went to the United Kingdom to teach clothing. According to La Repubblica, Maria Adela initially traveled with short -term French visas and was able to get a student visa.
A familiar woman remembered that she was often in London and asked her to bring her with some English politicians or lords, but "the conversation did not come. " Then the scout registered in France the jewelry company Serein, which became its official cover. In 2012, Maria Adela married her husband, whom she presented to her acquaintances as an Italian. Journalists found that he also had Ecuadorian and Russian citizenship and was born in Moscow in the family of Russian and Ecuadorets.
A man died in Moscow at the age of 30 from "double pneumonia and systemic lupus erythematosus" a year after the "wedding". Close friends of the "husband" "Maria Adel" said that they had never heard about her and did not know that he was married. One of his friends in conversation with investigators suggested that he could agree to a marriage to help someone with a European passport.
According to journalists, in 2013, Maria Adela registered in Italy, a jewelry company Serein SRL and moved to the suburbs of Naples, then opened a boutique of jewelry, which turned into a club, and achieved the posts of secretary at the local department of Lion. Investigators found that the jewelry that a woman on Serein was issued for branded and created personally by her were actually bought from Chinese online stores on Ali Express.
The Insider writes that the Lion's Club branch was created by NATO officers who are based in Naples, which allowed the spyers to make useful acquaintances. She communicated with many NATO employees on social networks, with some relations "clearly romantic", attended many NATO or US Armed Forces and came home to some officers.
Colonel Sheli Bryant, former General Inspector of the US Navy in Europe and Africa, told reporters that Maria Adel's history had raised her suspicion and she and her husband were communicating with her to secular conversations. Judging by Facebook the scouts and memoirs of her familiar d'Arja Smith, since 2013 she went to Bahrain every year under the pretext of attending the Jewelery Arabia exhibition and even met with the then Prime Minister, who was presented with cufflinks.
Investigators say that Bahrain is a US Navy base, which serves more than 7,000 soldiers and officers of the US Army. The next day after the journalists of The Insider and Bellingcat in 2018 published an investigation into the poisons of Skripal, which mentioned the passports of the cover of the game of a special series, "Maria Adela" suddenly returned to Moscow without saying nothing to her European acquaintances.
In two months, she posted a post Italian post on Facebook, in which she spoke about her "Cancer" and "Chemotherapy". Investigators believe that Maria Adela lives in Moscow under the name of Olga Kolobov, where she has been able to get two apartments since 2018, and works at the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.