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A Russian spy was surviving successful a "typical seaside hotel" connected the English seashore crammed afloat of physics surveillance equipment, a tribunal has heard.
Orlin Roussev boasted to his controller that helium was becoming similar the James Bond quality "Q" arsenic helium prepared his spying "toys" for kidnap and surveillance operations crossed Europe.
He is said to person taken instructions from a handler called Jan Marsalek, who is wanted successful transportation with a £1.6bn tech fraud linked to a institution called Wirecard.
Roussev, 46, a Bulgarian national, has pleaded blameworthy to moving a spy ringing connected behalf of the Russians, but 3 different members of the radical contradict the charges.
The Old Bailey was told a "vast" magnitude of method instrumentality for "intrusive surveillance" was recovered astatine Roussev's code successful Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, which helium described successful messages arsenic his "Indiana Jones warehouse".
The Haydee impermanent location connected Prince's Road had 33 rooms according to Dan Pawson-Pounds, prosecuting.
Inside 3 of them was a "significant magnitude of IT and surveillance equipment". It was stacked up successful 2 retention rooms and an bureau utilized by Roussev, the tribunal was told.
The assemblage heard that Operation Skirp seized 3,540 exhibits from a fig of addresses, including 1,650 integer exhibits, and was shown 2 "IMSI grabbers" - a achromatic metallic container susceptible of capturing mobile telephone numbers from a adjacent area.
Both devices were described arsenic "law enforcement grade" and could beryllium utilized to intercept oregon disrupt targeted mobile telephone communications and to place an idiosyncratic telephone by their IMSI and IMEI numbers, successful conjunction with a direction-finding unit.
The spies planned to usage them extracurricular a US subject basal successful Stuttgart, Germany, to stitchery accusation from the phones of Ukrainian servicemen who were being trained to run Patriot rocket defence batteries, the prosecution said.
The accusation would person allowed them to way the servicemen backmost to Ukraine and place wherever the missiles were fired from, but the program was foiled erstwhile the men were arrested successful February past year.
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Gadgets with hidden cameras portion of evidence
Other findings included pendant necklaces with hidden cameras, h2o bottles with mobile phone-linked video surveillance capability, a Pandora car cardinal cloning device, and much accepted surveillance instrumentality specified arsenic nighttime imaginativeness binoculars and mobile radios.
The spy ring's members allegedly included Katrin Ivanova, 33, a laboratory adjunct from Harrow, North London, Vanya Gaberova, 30, a beautician from Acton, West London, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, a creator and decorator from Enfield.
Roussev and Biser Dzhambazov - a 43-year-old antheral from London who is besides an alleged subordinate of the ringing - person some pleaded blameworthy to conspiracy to cod accusation utile to an enemy.
Gaberova, Ivanova, and Ivanchev each contradict the charges and the proceedings continues. All 5 are Bulgarian nationals with "settled status" successful the UK.
More instrumentality - including a achromatic headdress with a concealed camera and a one-litre integrative Coke vessel with waterproof camera down the statement - was recovered successful the lounge astatine a North London flat shared by Ivanova and Dzhambazov, the proceedings has heard.
The proceedings continues.
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