A lab technician has been accused of being the only member of Bulgaria’s spy colored to remove a plot to steal Ukrainian soldiers’ training mobile numbers in Germany.
Katrin Ivanova, 33, was told by Prosecutor Elison Morgan KC in Old Bailey that he was named the most expert member of the group by the leader of the Platter and was essential for planned monitoring in Stuttgart.
Morgan said, “You were the ones whose minds and abilities were there,” Morgan said, when he examined Ivanova all day in a spying case in the Central Criminal Court.
Prosecutors say Ivanova was part of a Bulgarian spy ring that was involved in a plot from Moscow, to steal Ukrainian troops’ phone numbers about the Patriot Air Defense System in the patch barracks in Stuttgart –
Morgan highlighted the message sent by a Russian agent based in Moscow, John Marcelik, a spy -colored leader, and Lin Rossev, saying he said he would “drive the IMSI” to Stuttgart “, a Wants to send a sophisticated device. Able to eliminate thousands of close phone numbers.
The prosecutor said Ivanova was being cited – but in response he refused to be able to operate the surveillance device. He said he was not trained to use IMSI catcher until after his arrest in February 2023, or even heard about it.
Ivanova said he had now liked text message and like it in the disclosures before the trial, but he insisted that he currently know nothing about the dialogue between Russo and Marseillek. “They refer to the ministers many times, not just for me,” he said.
Prosecutors later highlighted a message that his colleague, 43 -year -old, Bazer Dazamazov sent him in October 2022 as part of a part of Russia’s home trip “for me to prepare it for me and laptop Big IMSI brought “Big IMSI to be able to set. In Great Yarmut. Ivanova confessed to receiving the message, but said that does not mean anything for it.
Ivanova went to Stutgart with Dazamazov, which prosecutors say there was a satisfactory mission between October 31 and November 3, 2022. The court heard that he took the picture and filmed the boundaries of the military base while walking with it.
During the hearing, Ivanova confessed that she knew that some surveillance equipment was placed in a flat shared with Dazbazov in northwestern London’s hero. It included a spy camera hidden in a bottle of Coca -Cola, and the Manin toy flower from the Dispackable Films.
The lab technician is one of the three Bulgarian living in the UK, accused of spying for Russia between August 2020 and February 2023. She denies the allegations. Both of the color leaders, Rusf and his friend and deputy Dhummazov, have proved the crime and will be sentenced once after the trial of others.
Ivanova told the court that she was “in a relationship with Dzhimazov”, about which she knew from the age of 17. Although it was not physically abusive, he said, “The man was controlling without my sense”.
The lab technician said he was “heartbroken” after his arrest that the bride had been in a relationship with another defendant, a second defendant, Venia Giavrova for a year and a half.
He told the court, “He cheated on me,” and argued that Dazbazov had repeatedly given instructions for surveillance operations, which had come from Russo and Marseillek, and whose main purpose was to him. Never been correctly understood.
However, Morgan challenged his account that he was a victim, and forced Ivanova to admit that he had his own relationship. After a brief refusal, Ivanova admitted that she had been in a “open relationship” but insisted that it was different from the behavior of Dhbazov. He was “in a parallel relationship with someone for 18 months”.
