(EFE).- The United Kingdom Prosecutor’s Office accused this Thursday five people of Bulgarian nationality, three men and two women, of spying for Russia between August 2020 and February this year.
They are all charged with “conspiring to gather information that would be useful to an enemy” and will appear before a judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on the 26th, said Nick Price, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s special crime and counter-terrorism unit.
The defendants are Orlin Russev, 45 years old; Bizer Dzhambazov, 41; Katrin Ivanova, 31; Ivan Stoyanov, 31, and Vanya Gaberova, 29.
Three of them – Roussev, Dzhambazov and Ivanova – had already been charged in February with possessing false identification documents with “unfair intent”.
The authorities suspect that the five people sought to collect data that could “directly or indirectly” serve an enemy of the United Kingdom “with the aim of damaging the security and interests of the state.”
Three of them – Roussev, Dzhambazov and Ivanova – were already accused in February of possessing false identification documents with “improper intent,” the prosecutor’s office explained.
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