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The Lionidiga sanctifying Denilova and Vladimir Alexander is in Portugal, Manuel and Adriana
Two Russian spies have used counterfeit documents purchased in Brazil to live in Portugal for years. The couple used the port as the basis from which they conducted espionage operations throughout Europe.
An investigation conducted for several years by reveals that Russia used Brazil as a launch platform for elite spieswhich give the name of “illegal“.
According to the NYT report, these spies abandon their Russian past and start a new life in Brazil – where they open business, create friendships, and maintain loving cases – events that, over many years, have become foundation of completely new identities.
So far, nothing very different from the numerous Russian spy operations with infiltrated spies that have been unmasked, in particular in the United States and the United Kingdom. But this large -scale spy factory It’s different.
The goal It is not to spy up Brazil, but to become Brazilian. After a few years, camouflaged with credible facade stories, these spies depart for the United States, Middle East, or Europe – where they begin “to work seriously”.
During the last three years, Brazilian counter -espionage agents have been hunt these spies in a silent and methodical way. Through a thorough police work, the agents discovered a patternwhich allowed them to identify the spies, one by one.
This is how they caught Manuel and Adriana Pereira.
Thus presented in Portugal a Russian spyin their 30s, whose real names were actually Vladimir aleksandrovich danilov e Yekaterina Leonidovna Danilova.
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Six of the Russian spies caught by Brazilian counter -espionage: Yekaterina Leonidovna Danilova, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Danilov, Olga Igorevna Tyutereva, Aleksandr Andreyevich Utekhin, Irina Alekseyevna Antonova and Roman Olegovich Koval.
The two spies entered Portugal in 2018, from Brazilunder the names of Manuel Francisco Steinbruck Pereira and Adriana Carolina Costa Silva Pereira, says the New York Times.
According to the newspaper, Vladimir used a Brazilian passport and provided the authorities documentation that showed that his father was a Portuguese citizen, which allowed him Get Portuguese Citizenship. Yekaterina, who did not request citizenship, obtained residence permission in our country.
These credentials allowed the spies move freely in the 27 Member States of the European Union without restrictions.
About three years ago, The SIS was alerted by its counterpartinternational s for the presence of Two spies in Portugaland started an investigation to its activities.
The investigation of the Portuguese intelligence agency revealed that Danilovs conducted several espionage operations using the port as a base Operational, from which they traveled to various countries using their Brazilian and Portuguese passports.
After these trips, the couple always returned to their home in Porto without finding any problems, reports the Sun. However, after their last trip, the two spies no longer returned, and their current whereabouts are unknown.
In the books of Ian Fleming, Lisbon, and Cascais are sehancing with secrets and secret agents, always very busy with their unmistakable activities. The spies of Estoril served, in fact, of.
Apparently the spies of our times prefer the port.
