Alleged agents in the pay of the Russian services are suspected of having coordinated operations in different countries from the south of England. The suspects, three men and two women, reject these accusations while their trial is to be held in the fall.
The defendants, aged between 29 and 46, are suspected. of being part of a network working for the benefit of Russia, with operations taking place mainly abroad but coordinated from the United Kingdom. And this over a period from August 2020 to February 2023. The affair has a strong scent of the Cold War. It all started in February. 2023 when the London police anti-terrorism unit arrested five Bulgarian nationals. Orlin Roussev, 46, Bizer Dzhambazov, 42, Katrin Ivanova, 32,. Ivan Stoyanov, 32, and Vanya Gaberova, 29, were charged with ‘ conspiracy to gather information that could be useful to the enemy and harm the security and interests of the State’