Prosecutors in Sofia, Bulgaria, have reportedly discovered a spy network working on behalf of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
A couple is suspected of having transmitted confidential documents on NATO and the European Union to the Russian embassy.
The KGB no longer exists, but Russian agents are still active, notably within the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
A couple at the head of a network of six people has just been caught up in the bag in Bulgaria.
The head of the network is a former intelligence service whose particularity is to have a wife with dual Russian-Bulgarian nationality.
An asset up its sleeve to play intermediaries.
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Meeting during a tennis match
Thus, he meets during a tennis match "informers", infiltrated in the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense.
During this time, his wife gathers information, concerning confidential elements on the European Union and NATO, and transmits it to an employee of the Russian embassy.
In exchange, she receives money to pay the members of the network.
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The Sofia prosecutor's office has several pieces of evidence: tapes of conversations, photos of the woman entering and leaving the embassy.
However, no information was communicated on the importance of the documents transmitted.
In any case, this affair will not heat up relations between Washington, Brussels and Moscow.
This discovery comes after the adoption of sanctions by the European Union and the United States targeting senior Russian officials after the poisoning and imprisonment of Alexey Navalny.