{"id":82536,"date":"2025-05-07T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82536\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:37:23","slug":"moscow-spies-who-plotted-kidnappings-attended-brexit-event-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82536\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow spies who plotted kidnappings attended Brexit event in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Bulgarian nationals convicted of spying for Russia attended a Brexit event in Parliament in May 2016, shocking new revelations have revealed. <\/p>\n

Orlin Roussev, a Kremlin agent, Biser Dzhambazov, his second-in-command, and Katrin Ivanova, Dzhambazov’s girlfriend, were present at the event held in a committee room.<\/p>\n

The three were part of a Russian spy ring that was found guilty in March following Britain’s largest spying investigation.<\/p>\n

Photographs unearthed by the BBC show the spies seated at the Brexit event alongside representatives of European political parties.<\/p>\n

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Three Bulgarian nationals convicted of spying for Russia attended a Brexit event in Parliament in May 2016, the BBC has revealed.<\/p>\n

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The use of the room was sponsored by Baroness Brown of Silvertown, who told the BBC she had “absolutely no memory” of the event.<\/p>\n

The spy ring operated from a base in Great Yarmouth, plotting kidnappings, disinformation campaigns and surveillance against Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n

They also engaged in secret weapon trades with China.<\/p>\n

Their orders came directly from Moscow via Jan Marsalek, a fugitive tech boss who is one of Europe’s most wanted men.<\/p>\n

\"Parliament\"\/<\/p>\n

The three were part of a Russian spy ring that was found guilty in March following Britain’s largest spying investigation<\/p>\n

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After a four-month trial at the Old Bailey, Ivanova was convicted of offences between August 2020 and February 2023.<\/p>\n

She was found guilty alongside Tihomir Ivanchev and Vanya Gaberova.<\/p>\n

Roussev and Dzhambazov had previously pleaded guilty, along with another man, Ivan Stoyanov.<\/p>\n

A parliamentary spokesman told the BBC that Parliament was a public building with “robust” security processes.<\/p>\n

\"AA photo from outside the headquarters of the Bank of RussiaReuters<\/p>\n

Roussev’s identity in the photographs was verified by two people who knew him during that period, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

The news organisation also visually reviewed the images to confirm Dzhambazov’s presence, with Ivanova also visible in the pictures.<\/p>\n

The photographs, published on Facebook, show the three spies seated behind Georgi Pirinski, a US-born former Communist who was then a member of the European Parliament for the Bulgarian Socialist Party.<\/p>\n

Dzhambazov and Ivanova became members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2016.<\/p>\n

The event was organised and attended by representatives of European political parties, including the Bulgarian Socialist Party.<\/p>\n

All six members of the spy ring are scheduled to be sentenced this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Bulgarian nationals convicted of spying for Russia attended a Brexit event in Parliament in May 2016, shocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,12,332,512,16,1259,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-82536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-sgg","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-news","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114468005296974320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82536","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=82536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}