The services from 8 countries broke the network of Russian spies pretending to be Brazilian citizens - the Portuguese media forwarded. In the background there are reports of a fiery affair, as well as the engagement of officials. Experts are alerting that the South American country has become a hatchery for Kremlovian agents.
Operating since 2018 in Porto marriage of Russians pretending to be Brazilians, as Lisbon's CMTV station passed, it rapidly began to integrate into the fresh environment, making friends.
Russian spies detained. They pretended to be Brazilians.
The station says Vladimir and Ekaterina Danilovov, as well as others operating under changed in Brazil, Russian spies were exposed following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, "after cooperation between the safety services of the Western states intensified".
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According to the findings of journalists outside Portugal and Brazil in the breakdown of Russian grids "illegals" The services of the United States, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Uruguay and Greece have besides worked together.
Russian seduced Brazilian official
It was the Greek services, as determined by Brazilian Globo television, that first exposed another hiding under Brazilian identities of a Russian spy Artema Szmyriewa. He was set to stay in a relation with a Brazilian elder official.
"He lived in Rio de Janeiro, moving a spatial printing company and utilizing the name Gerhard Wittich (...). His fiancée represented Brazil during global events" - determined Globo TV.
According to Shmyriev Station, while with his Brazilian partner in Malaysia, he abruptly disappeared. Following the transmission of an alert about the missing "Brazilian" to another states' police services, it was revealed that the Greek counterintelligence recognized the wanted Wittich as a Russian spy Shmyriev.
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Brazil "home" of Russian spies
"New York Times" journalists showed that Russian services were sending their best people to Brazil, not to conduct intelligence operations there, but to have intelligence officers gain a fresh identity there. This allowed them to be sent anywhere for candles due to the fact that they had a strong false legend built.
A Brazilian police unit specialised in counterintelligence operations began with a code name "Operation East"During which she managed to discover the modus operandi of Russian services. Through investigative work, at least 9 Russian intelligence officers have been revealed. 2 were arrested and the others had to return to Russia. According to the "NYT", these people will never be able to operate undercover abroad of the Russian Federation.
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According to a paper study in 2022, Brazilian services received information from the CIA that a individual traveling with a Brazilian passport, flying from Sao Paulo to The Hague to take an internship at the global Criminal Court (ICT), works for Russian intelligence.
Victor Muller Ferreira, actually Sergei Cherkasov, he was about to start work erstwhile the ICC began investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Under Brazilian identity Cherkasov besides finished Washington Johns Hopkins University. However, no longer at the Dutch airport was allowed in by the border guard, which was warned.
Cherkasov had to return to Brazil, where, after an instant investigation, he was jailed for falsifying documents. This incidental gave emergence to an ongoing investigation of over 3 years of Brazilian police, which concluded that since Cherkasov was able to build specified a sophisticated false identity, there could most likely be more spies - described the fresh York newspaper.
Passport issued on Victor Muller Ferreira It was real. The card authorising him to vote, too. In addition, Cherkasov had a paper demonstrating that he had carried out compulsory military service. However, suspicions of investigators raised Cherkasov's birth certificate, which indicated that he was born in Rio de Janeiro and his parent died 4 years after his birth. However, it turned out that even though her mother's identity was true, she never had children.
For geographical reasons in Brazil, persons born in the state may get a birth certificate erstwhile 2 witnesses confirm their version of the events. "NYT" pointed out that this strategy is imperfect and prone to corruption, so perfect for being utilized by abroad services.
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