A spy ring – and a love triangle – podcast | Russia

On Friday, three UK-based Bulgarian nationals accused of spying for Russia had been discovered responsible of espionage fees on the Outdated Bailey in London.

“It begins with a easy request,” Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and safety editor, tells Michael Safi. “A request from one of many world’s most needed males.”

“He writes, we’d be considering a Bulgarian man working for Bellingcat, Christo Grozev, can we glance into this man? Would it not elevate too many questions?”

Sabbagh explains how Jan Marsalek, an Austrian-born Russian agent, directed a London-based spy community to focus on journalists.

Safi additionally speaks to the Russian investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov, who lives in exile within the UK, on his expertise being focused by Marsalek and the spy ring.

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