A group of Russian "minions" from Bulgaria convicted in the UK

The network, which engaged in a series of surveillance and intelligence operations between August 2020 and February 2023, was led by Orlin Roussev, who was sentenced to ten years and eight months’ imprisonment.

The other group members sentenced were Biser Dzhambazov (ten years and two months), Katrin Ivanova (nine years and eight months), Ivan Stoyanov (five years and three weeks), Vanya Gaberova (six years, eight months and three weeks) and Tihomir Ivanchev (eight years).

Before the group was formed, Roussev had been contacted by Jan Marsalek, an Austrian fugitive who in 2020 fled fraud charges in Germany, and according to investigators is probably hiding in Russia.