LONDON - According to news presented to the London court, the Russian spy ring was painted, painted the weapons of blood diamonds and provided drones to Russian troops, which portrayed their fugitive leaders as the desired James Bond.
Jan Marsalek, named Germany's biggest fraud case since the war, allegedly led a team of six Bulgarians who were sentenced on Monday at London's famous Old Bailey Courthouse.
When German payments went bankrupt in 2020, creditors were nearly $4 billion, Marsalek, the company's chief operating officer, made a run and launched an international search for Austrian nationals, which remained the whole.
The news revealed in the court made it clear that he held a meeting with the GRU and the FSB National Security Service in Moscow, known as Lubyanka in its headquarters building and was "linked to the FSB's shooting venue". He even poses for Russian military fatigue.
Court documents also show that when he ran away, he commanded a group of amateur agents: Orlin Roussev, 47; his second order, Biser Dzhambazov, 44; 33-year-old mixed martial arts fighter Ivan Stoyanov, known as the "Rock".
Katrin Ivanova, 33, and Vanya Gaberova, 30, were described by prosecutors as “Honeytrap” agents, and competitive swimmer Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, constitute the rest of the British police activities that put life and national security at risk.
The prosecutor said the spies monitored journalists, diplomats and dissident Russians targeting Britain, Austria, Spain and Montenegro and paid great rewards for their services.
Prosecutors said using law enforcement-level equipment called "IMSI robbers" targeting a patch barracks of US bases in Stuttgart, Germany, they believe they are being trained by Ukrainian soldiers to manipulate Patriot missile air defense turrets. The court heard that when Russia returns to Ukraine to operate missile batteries, it will help them target them.
However, after investigations by the MI5 spy service in the UK, they were arrested on 8 February 2023, and they were ready to return to Germany and return to Germany with used Chrysler equipment.
NBC News has contacted the General Staff Office of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, known as the GU's comments.
The prosecutor said the department did not work directly for Russian intelligence and its members were motivated for economic gains. They said investigators date back to $225,000 but believe the same amount was paid in at least cryptocurrency.
Judge Hilliard said in his sentencing that the large amount of money paid to six Bulgarian spies showed the "value" of their secret activities to Russia.
"Some of that money will pay for them, but not all," he said. "This allows the defendant to live very comfortably. It must be considered valuable to what the defendant is doing."
However, prosecutors said Roussev led a spy ring from a rundown hotel in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth on the east coast of England, where he hid his massive spy equipment, many of which he adapted to himself.
Roussev pleaded guilty to espionage in Russia in November and was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison. Dzhambazov was sentenced to 10 years and two months in prison, while Stoyanov lasted for seven years and seven months.
Ivanova was found guilty in March along with Gaberova and Ivanchev. She was sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison. Gaberova and Ivanchev were sentenced to eight years in prison respectively.
With six-focused sentencing, court documents show that after being arrested on February 8, 2023, more than 80,000 messages have been retrieved from Roussev and Dzhambazov on the encrypted telegram messaging application.
They revealed the way Mazalek in Moscow’s life, revealing that he competed with intelligence officers and naked women, had plastic surgery to cover up his identity, and said he wanted to “beat James Bond.”
To show that he was “not an anti-Western thinker,” Roussev’s defense attorney introduced the message to Masalek, which they said showed that their clients were “solved to make money”, just like Mr. Roussev. ”
The news was not introduced by prosecutors as part of their Russian espionage charges, showing the two men discussing a request to help evacuate us and Afghan nationals during their evacuation from U.S.-led forces in August 2021.
“The interesting requests from our friends at the CIA,” Marsalek said. "They desperately need planes to fly out of contractors from Afghanistan," he said. "Did you know anyone is a little rogue and runs a big plane?"
The goal is to "evacuate about 1,000 Afghan nationals" and "80 American citizens" to Albania, and he said a consensus agreement was reached between Albania and the U.S. government.
Rousseff said he would ask his father’s pilot contact in Africa, and Masalec replied: “The United States needs you, Parks Americans lean on your broad and masculine shoulder.”
Roussev later said that the plane left Kabul shortly before ISIS-K terrorists, and a bomb exploded outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, killing 170 people and 13 U.S. service members.
King's attorney Mark Summers defended Roussev in court, the request was made through a private company.
The CIA declined to comment.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan said the two did not act according to humanitarianism or at direct request from the U.S. government.
It is not clear whether Roussev successfully secured the flight.
News shows that Roussev and Marsalek also discussed transporting diamonds in exchange for weapons.
In the June 2021 exchange, Masalec asked African diamond sellers if they wanted guns for redemption or cash. “They usually buy guns, a lot of them.” He is not sure if the rebels or the government will benefit from the deal. "It is said that there is only the government, but who knows, this is Africa."
Three months ago, Roussev told Marsalek that he provided 886,000 tons of wheat to the Cameroonian government every year at “very low prices” from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
He said that given the amount, it was a "good deal", saying that weapons and the Spnick Kuved vaccine could be part of the deal. "Guns and satellites = no problem." Masalec replied. "It is possible to organize almost anything they need except nuclear weapons," he added. "Even with nuclear weapons payments."
Other information provides a glimpse of Marsalek's life in exile, as well as his efforts to lead the authorities, including facial reconstruction.
"I'm trying to improve my skills in some ways, and language is one of them. In my new role as an international fugitive, I have to beat James Bond."
Four months later, in September of that year, Marsalek apologized for losing contact, saying he was "trapped between the Mafia, half of the Russian ambassador, Gru, a dozen naked girls and some deep state boys whose names no one knows who forced me to drink a bottle of gin."
A few months later, he told Roussev that he had "another cosmetic surgery, trying to look different".
"Sleep, sleep is the best repair for this situation," Rousseff replied.