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-Lurid Crime Tales-

They drove a Kia and paid their taxes every year - neighbors had no idea they were elite foreign spies

2024-06-24

[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

#7 who do you talk to?

The Swiss are a frequent go between for those situations.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-24 16:00

#6 Now mind you, the Slovenian's rolled this couple up in Dec 2022, but it's a story now.
I guess Moscow doesn't want to negotiate for them, so the Slovene's are upping the ante. Then again, they sent all the Russian diplos home, so who do you talk to?

Posted by: ed in texas 2024-06-24 15:50

#5 Kids? The kids were props. What happens to them?

Yeah, the Netflix series delves into that issue in great depth.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-06-24 11:00

#4 Sounds a lot like the Netflix series The Americans.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-06-24 10:58

#3 Why some buyers in this state are terrified of getting on the property ladder and claim 'we're being treated like spies'

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-24 08:00

#2 I had no idea Natasha was almost 6'4".

Posted by: ed in texas 2024-06-24 07:55

#1 Kids? The kids were props. What happens to them?

Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2024-06-24 07:18

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