Slovenian authorities have arrested two overseas nationals suspected of spying for Russia’s GRU navy intelligence company, the Slovenian newspaper Delo reported Monday.
The arrest operation was carried out in December by the Slovene Intelligence and Safety Company (SOVA) within the capital Ljubljana, with suspects reportedly being arrested at a rented workplace house within the metropolis’s Bežigrad neighborhood.
At the least one of many suspects holds Argentine citizenship, whereas each operated within the EU member state below a false identification, in keeping with info obtained by Delo.
The 2 alleged brokers, who’re believed to be part of a wider internet of GRU sleeper cells working within the West, resist eight years in jail on fees of espionage and provisions of false info.
Russian officers haven’t but commented on the incident.
In October, Norwegian authorities arrested GRU agent Mikhail Mikushin, who operated below the false identification of Brazilian tutorial José Assis Giammaria and took part in a analysis program on the College of Tromsø.
However Russian authorities didn’t affirm hyperlinks with Mikushin and labeled his arrest a part of a “spy mania” that’s being “actively promoted in Norway.”
