Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka, ally of the Catalan independence movement in Brussels, discovered as a secret agent of Russia. According to several leaked emails, at least between the years 2004 and 2017, Zdanokas reported information to two officers of Russia's Federal Security Service ( FSB) She became a non-registered MEP in April 2022 after refusing to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine as her training in the European Chamber required.

The Insider magazine, in collaboration with the Delfi Estonia portal, the investigative journalism center Re:Baltica and the Swedish newspaper Expressen.