Three Bulgarians have been found guilty of spying for Russia in Britain and across continental Europe as part of one of the largest Russian espionage rings ever uncovered by the British police.anonovopg

During a three-year period, the group, led by a Bulgarian I.T. specialist, Orlin Roussev, 47, conducted six operations targeting journalists and critics of the Russian government, prosecutors said, adding they also carried out surveillance at a U.S. military site in Germany, where they believed Ukrainian soldiers were being trained.

“This case is a clear example of the increasing amount of state threat casework we are dealing with in the U.K. — particularly linked to Russia,” said Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command. “It also highlights a relatively new phenomenon whereby espionage is being ‘outsourced’ by certain states.”

Bruce Betts, the chief scientist at the Planetary Society, will be watching the show from his front yard in Pasadena, Calif.

Known as a combative number cruncher and familiarly known as Jay, Mr. Goldin was first elected comptroller in 1973, the same year that Abraham D. Beame, who had been comptroller, was elected mayor. Mr. Beame was ousted after one term as the city neared insolvency, a key factor in Mr. Koch’s successful race to succeed him in 1977.

Katrin Ivanova,7jogos cassino 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, all from London, were found guilty by a jury on Friday of being part of a group of six Bulgarians who spied for Russia between 2020 and 2023.

The three had denied the charges against them, claiming that they did not know who they were working for or had been lied to by those higher up the chain. Before the trial began, Mr. Roussev, who had been living in Great Yarmouth, had pleaded guilty to spying charges, along with two other members of the group: Bizer Dzhambazov, 43, from London, and Ivan Stoyanov, 34. The group will be sentenced in May.

Commander Murphy said that the convictions were achieved “as the result of an extremely complex investigation into a group that was carrying out sophisticated surveillance operations in the U.K., and in Europe, on behalf of the Russian state.”

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