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Russian spy ringleader recruited ‘killer sexy brunette twins’ to target journalist, UK court told

Katrin Ivanova deny conspiring to spy with a Russian agent.
The leader of a Russian spy ring boasted of using twin “killer sexy brunettes” while targeting a journalist who had exposed the agents behind the Salisbury poisonings, a court heard.

Orlin Roussev, 46, said that the women would be “above suspicion” during a surveillance operation of Christo Grozev, a journalist for the Bellingcat investigative website. He also planned to recruit two blonde twins.

The women were recruited during a mission where Roussev allegedly sent Katrin Ivanova, 33, and Vanya Gaberova, 30, both from London, to Valencia in September 2021.

They were allegedly accompanied by Bizer Dzhambazov, 43, a medical courier, who was living with Ivanova, a lab assistant, but having an affair with beautician Gaberova.

Gaberova, Ivanova, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of conspiracy to spy on behalf of Russia.
Roussev and Dzhambazov have admitted conspiring to spy with a Russian agent between 2020 and 2023. All five are Bulgarian nationals with “settled status” in the UK.

Roussev ran the spy ring from a guesthouse in Great Yarmouth and took instructions from his handler, whom the prosecution says is Jan Marsalek, an Austrian fugitive and former executive for the payments company Wirecard, who is wanted in connection with a €1.9 billion (£1.6 billion) tech fraud.

The court heard on Friday how the spy ring planned to steal Grozev’s laptop in an attempt to establish how he had unmasked the Russian agents who poisoned Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in Salisbury in March 2018.
 

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