Notorious Putin alligned spy fugitive spotted

One of the globe’s most hunted fugitives has been caught on digicam having fun with a stroll in Moscow with his associate. Jan Marsalek, 45, the previous Wirecard government who has evaded Interpol for 5 years, is now deeply tied to Vladimir Putin’s FSB and GRU intelligence businesses.

Infamous for orchestrating a Russian spy community in the UK, Marsalek now sports activities a beard and a hair transplant in the new photograph, where he’s seen strolling hand in hand with his 41-year-old associate, Tatiana Spiridonova — a slim, red-haired Russian operative. Before Spiridonova, his lover and recruiter was another spy, ex-erotic model Natalia Zlobina, 41, often dubbed the “naked spy.”

Fresh revelations about Marsalek’s double life in Moscow have surfaced in a joint investigation by impartial Russian outlet The Insider and German magazine Der Spiegel. “From an unremarkable three-storey house in Stremyanny Lane comes a couple,” reported the journalists. Meanwhile, the US has unveiled a terrifying $776 million B-21 Raider nuclear bomber, coming as a warning to Putin.

“They hold hands and chat casually, attracting no attention.

“Yet they should, because this man is Jan Marsalek, one of the world’s most wanted criminals, a former top manager of German tech giant Wirecard, recruited by Russian intelligence and on the run in Moscow after a £1.6 billion hole was found in his company’s accounts.”

His partnership with Spiridonova is “not only romantic but also professional.” She is “privy to many of Marsalek’s operations and even took part in them.”

The fugitive makes use of quite a few pretend identities, even posing as an Orthodox priest. One alter ego is “Alexander Nelidov,” a man supposedly born in Riga in 1978 but who never existed.

On 28 December 2024, reporters tracked him touring from Moscow to St. Petersburg under the title Alexander Schmidt. He is believed to possess more than eight passports.

Marsalek has repeatedly entered battle zones in Ukraine, visited Crimea at least 5 instances, and saved an workplace close to the FSB’s notorious Lubyanka base. Phone data counsel he travels by Moscow metro to the positioning virtually every day.

The “billionaire fraudster’s” most notorious scheme concerned Bulgarian spies working in Britain, jailed this yr for over 50 years in whole.

For almost three years, the cell leaked intelligence to Russia, concentrating on Kremlin critics, reporters, and Ukrainian troopers training at a US air base.

The ringleader, Orlin Roussev, 46, managed the group from a guesthouse in Great Yarmouth. Journalists Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov — authors of the latest Insider exposé — have been marked for kidnapping by Marsalek’s community, though MI5 foiled the attempt.

While Austrian-born Marsalek is still free, three associates — beautician Vanya Gaberova, 30, decorator Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, and lab employee Katrin Ivanova, 33 — have been convicted of spying for Russia.

Meanwhile, Roussev, 46, along with Biser Dzhambazov, 43, and Ivan Stoyanov, 32, admitted guilt under Britain’s Official Secrets Act.

Marsalek, Wirecard’s former chief operations officer, fled to Russia in 2020 but is suspected of touring overseas since, including to Dubai. He stays needed across Europe, including by the UK.

His ex-lover Zlobina, born in Uzbekistan, is both an actress and a onetime erotic model. She appeared in the 1996 American-Russian B-movie Red Lips 2: seen injurylust as a spy who murdered targets with nerve gasoline. She reportedly introduced Marsalek into Moscow’s business and intelligence circles, recruiting him during a yacht assembly.