A spy ring – and a love triangle

间谍组织——以及一段爱情三角关系

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2025-03-14

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Dan Sabbagh reports on three Bulgarian nationals found guilty of spying for Russia in a string of plots around Europe. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian.

  • Today, inside,

  • one of the most sophisticated and sometimes ridiculous Kremlin spy rings ever uncovered in the UK.

  • It's a day in February 2023, six in the morning,

  • outside an ordinary looking guest house in Great Yarmouth, not far from the beach.

  • A team of counter terror police are waiting outside and they're about to burst through the door.

  • Police.

  • Police.

  • There we go.

  • Police.

  • Police.

  • Inside, heavily armed officers in balaclavas pin a middle aged man against the wall.

  • His face is lit up in flashlights.

  • He looks terrified.

  • I think it's the wrong place.

  • He keeps saying, you've got the wrong place, but they don't.

  • Got a search warrant to search the address.

  • Okay?

  • Oh, yeah, sure, yeah.

  • The man's name is Orlen Rusev, a Bulgarian national and his house is full of surveillance devices.