{"id":522234,"date":"2025-10-23T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:13:13","slug":"london-cops-arrest-3-men-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522234\/","title":{"rendered":"London cops arrest 3 men on suspicion of spying for Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counter Terrorism Policing London Commander Dominic Murphy said:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing an increasing number of who we would describe as \u2018proxies\u2019 being recruited by foreign intelligence services and these arrests are directly related to our ongoing to efforts to disrupt this type of activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who might be contacted by and tempted into carrying out criminal activity on behalf of a foreign state here in the U.K. should think again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Murphy added: \u201cThis kind of activity will be investigated and anyone found to be involved can expect to be prosecuted and there are potentially very serious consequences for those who are convicted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moscow was put on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/russia-to-be-placed-on-foreign-influence-registration-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enhanced tier of the U.K.\u2019s Foreign Influence Registration Scheme<\/a> in July, meaning anyone working for the Russian state needs to declare their activity or risk jail.<\/p>\n<p>Three men were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cps.gov.uk\/cps\/news\/how-cps-used-new-national-security-act-legislation-prosecute-plot-sabotage-ukrainian-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted earlier this year<\/a> after an arson attack at a warehouse containing aid for Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counter Terrorism Policing London Commander Dominic Murphy said:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re seeing an increasing number of who we would describe as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,1193,393,4884,2817,2818,257,2453,332,811,1199,13466,16,657,15,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-522234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-politics","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-intelligence","13":"tag-intelligence-services","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-policing","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-services","19":"tag-terrorism","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115423661644768630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522234","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=522234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}