Gerard Melgar Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-12:32

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The Latvian MEP

Tatjana Zdanoka

, an ally of the Catalan independence movement during the

process

, would have worked for more than a decade as an agent of the

Russian intelligence services

. This is revealed by an investigation published today by

The Insider

magazine , in collaboration with the

Delfi Estonia

portal , the investigative journalism center Re:Baltica and the Swedish newspaper

Expressen

.

According to several leaked emails, at least between the years 2004 and 2017, Zdanoka reported information to two officers of

Russia's Federal Security Service

(

FSB

), the successor organization to the Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Soviet Union.

Integrated into the Greens/European Free Alliance

parliamentary group

(a political space to which she belonged since 2004),

Zdanoka

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.