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Russian spy who hoarded surveillance devices in English lodge boasted of being like James Bond character Q, court docket hears

By Editorial Board Published January 10, 2025 4 Min Read
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Russian spy who hoarded surveillance devices in English lodge boasted of being like James Bond character Q, court docket hears

A Russian spy was residing in a “typical seaside hotel” on the English coast crammed filled with digital surveillance gear, a court docket has heard.

Orlin Roussev boasted to his controller that he was changing into just like the James Bond character “Q” as he ready his spying “toys” for kidnap and surveillance operations throughout Europe.

He’s stated to have taken directions from a handler referred to as Jan Marsalek, who is needed in reference to a £1.6bn tech fraud linked to an organization referred to as Wirecard.

Roussev, 46, a Bulgarian nationwide, has pleaded responsible to operating a spy ring on behalf of the Russians, however three different members of the group deny the fees.

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Orlin Roussev pleaded responsible to operating a spy ring on behalf of the Russians. Pic: Met Police

The Outdated Bailey was informed a “vast” quantity of technical gear for “intrusive surveillance” was discovered at Roussev’s tackle in Nice Yarmouth, Norfolk, which he described in messages as his “Indiana Jones warehouse”.

The Haydee visitor home on Prince’s Street had 33 rooms in keeping with Dan Pawson-Kilos, prosecuting.

Inside three of them was a “significant amount of IT and surveillance equipment”. It was stacked up in two storage rooms and an workplace utilized by Roussev, the court docket was informed.

The jury heard that Operation Skirp seized 3,540 displays from various addresses, together with 1,650 digital displays, and was proven two “IMSI grabbers” – a black steel field able to capturing cell phone numbers from a close-by space.

An IMSI grabber, which can capture mobile phone numbers from a nearby area. Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS

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An IMSI grabber, which might seize cell phone numbers from a close-by space. Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS

Each units had been described as “law enforcement grade” and may very well be used to intercept or disrupt focused cell phone communications and to establish a person cellphone by their IMSI and IMEI numbers, at the side of a direction-finding unit.

The spies deliberate to make use of them exterior a US army base in Stuttgart, Germany, to assemble data from the telephones of Ukrainian servicemen who had been being educated to function Patriot missile defence batteries, the prosecution stated.

The knowledge would have allowed them to trace the servicemen again to Ukraine and establish the place the missiles had been fired from, however the plan was foiled when the lads had been arrested in February final yr.

Electronics and spying equipment seized from Orlin Roussev's Great Yarmouth guesthouse.
Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS

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Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS

Devices with hidden cameras a part of proof

Different findings included pendant necklaces with hidden cameras, water bottles with cell phone-linked video surveillance functionality, a Pandora automotive key cloning gadget, and extra conventional surveillance gear similar to night time imaginative and prescient binoculars and cell radios.

Electronics and spying equipment seized from Orlin Roussev's Great Yarmouth guesthouse.
Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS

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Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS

The spy ring’s members allegedly included Katrin Ivanova, 33, a lab assistant from Harrow, North London, Vanya Gaberova, 30, a beautician from Acton, West London, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, a painter and decorator from Enfield.

Roussev and Biser Dzhambazov – a 43-year-old man from London who can be an alleged member of the ring – have each pleaded responsible to conspiracy to gather data helpful to an enemy.

Gaberova, Ivanova, and Ivanchev all deny the fees and the trial continues. All 5 are Bulgarian nationals with “settled status” within the UK.

Extra gear – together with a black cap with a hid digital camera and a one-litre plastic Coke bottle with waterproof digital camera behind the label – was discovered within the lounge at a North London flat shared by Ivanova and Dzhambazov, the trial has heard.

The trial continues.

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