{"id":433538,"date":"2025-09-18T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433538\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:52:10","slug":"three-arrested-in-essex-on-suspicion-of-assisting-russian-intelligence-service-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433538\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested in Essex on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence service | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two men and a woman have been arrested in Essex on suspicion of assisting Russian state intelligence, the Metropolitan police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Met said the two men, aged 41 and 46, and 35-year-old woman were arrested at two separate addresses in Grays on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and taken to a police station in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The force said: \u201cThe country to which the allegations relate is Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Commander Dominic Murphy, the head of the Met\u2019s counter-terrorism command, said: \u201cThrough our recent national security casework, we\u2019re seeing an increasing number of who we would describe as \u2018proxies\u2019 being recruited by foreign intelligence services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">All three have been bailed while the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Scotland Yard said it would not disclose the nationalities of those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men and a woman have been arrested in Essex on suspicion of assisting Russian state intelligence, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-433538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115225162152268917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}