Old Bailey shown evidence of transfers between account in name of collapsed payments group and alias of Orlin Roussev
A Bulgarian national accused of spying for Russia was paid £18,600 from a bank account in the name of collapsed payments company Wirecard, according to evidence seen by a London court on Thursday. Jurors at the Old Bailey were shown a series of payments in July 2019 from Wirecard Technologies Gmbh to an account belonging to an alias of Orlin Roussev, 46, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to spy.
Telegram messages read out in court this week showed Marsalek — who was using the alias “Rupert Ticz” — instructing Roussev to conduct surveillance on Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training at a US base in Germany, as well as journalists and Russian dissidents who were of interest to Moscow. “This was a high level, sophisticated espionage operation,” prosecutor Alison Morgan KC told the jury on Thursday.
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