They drove a Kia and paid their taxes every year - neighbors had no idea they were elite foreign spies
[MAIL] A 'quiet' couple who led a humdrum life in a sleepy suburb left friends speechless after it emerged that they were senior Russian spies operating a network of European informants for Vladimir Putin.
Ludwig Gisch would cycle to his IT start-up every day from the pastel-colored house he shared with wife Maria and their two young children on the outskirts of Slovenia's capital Ljubljana.
She ran an online art gallery, sent her children to the city's British International School, and was described by one neighbor as a 'gray mouse'.
In reality, he was Artem Viktorovich Dultsev and she was Anna Dultseva of Russia's foreign intelligence service the SVR, tasked with undermining Western energy security after Putin's invasion of Ukraine and she was his boss.
'Now we will see how important these people really are to Russia,' one official told the Guardian. 'This is big game now; it's clear that Slovenia is just a proxy here.'
Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-24 |