SIX members of a ­Russian spy ring are to have their jail sentences reviewed for being too lenient, we can reveal. The Bulgarians — who lived and worked in ­the UK — plotted sex stings, and ...

By any measure, Grozev won this round. He is alive. Marsalek is stuck in Russia, and his minions are in prison in England.

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No-one was physically harmed but the group put lives in jeopardy, prosecutors said. Photo shows Vanya Gaberova looks into a bathroom mirror wearing glasses capable of recording video. Operating out of ...

Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, were convicted by a jury in March of conspiring to spy for an enemy state. Ivanova was sentenced to nine years and eight months ...

Bulgarian beautician Vanya Gaberova, 30, was part of a spy ring which targeted people and places of interest to the Russian state over three years. Giving her mitigation before she is sentenced ...

Vanya Gaberova. The spies followed Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian researcher for the online publication Bellingcat, from Vienna to a conference in Valencia, Spain, and the gang’s ringleaders ...

Meanwhile, another defendant Vanya Gaberova was told: "You knew what you were doing was for the benefit of Russia". The motivation for these acts, Mr Justice Hilliard said, was money. We've a post ...

The ringleader of a Bulgarian spy cell, Orlin Roussev, is jailed for 10 years and 8 months over spying for Russia Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova, Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev ...

In one operation, members tried to lure a journalist who uncovered Moscow’s involvement in the 2018 Novichok poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England, into a “honeytrap” romance with ...