![]() Lecture du Monde en cours sur un autre appareil. You have 75% of this article left to read. Here, espionage is practiced the old-fashioned way. The sanctions regime is hurting them, they've lost a lot of equipment in the field and need to replenish their stock of military equipment." In Sweden, unlike Estonia or Latvia on the other side of the Baltic Sea, there is no Russian-speaking community on which Moscow could rely for its interference operations. "The Februinvasion of Ukraine has not reduced Russian interference in our country," Daniel Stenling, head of Swedish counter-espionage (Säpo) told Le Monde, "because our high-performance, cutting-edge industries are of interest to the Kremlin. The courts suspect that their companies, which import and export electronic components and advanced technologies, are Swedish links in an industrial espionage network run by the GRU. They studied engineering in Moscow, and moved to Sweden in the late 1990s. Now dual nationals – in 2010 for Koulkova, in 2012 for Skvortsov – they both hail from the Perm region in the Urals. Since then, the couple have been accused of "illegal acquisition of technologies for the benefit of the Russian military industry." Skvortsov was in contact with "the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU," said the prosecutor in charge of national security cases, Henrik Olin.Īt the end of 2022, Sweden was stunned to discover its first "Illegals." These are Russian agents who infiltrate foreign countries on a long-term basis, under a false identity or false status, as in the hit TV series The Americans. Soviet spies (9 C, 100 P) State Political Directorate (1 C, 4 P). That morning, Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Koulkova, aged 59 and 58, and their son, were still asleep. Soviet Union intelligence operations (3 C, 19 P) S. The first secret police after the October Revolution, created by Vladimir Lenins decree on December 20, 1917, was called 'Cheka' (). ![]() ![]() Lars, a 48-year-old neighbor, remembered seeing the inscription "FBI" on the backs of some of the agents present alongside the Swedish police. There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. At dawn on November 22, 2022, against a backdrop of snow, two helicopters and police units burst in, smashing doors and windows. On the first floor, several windows have been covered with plastic, the scars of an event from which the local inhabitants are still struggling to recover. It's hard not to spot the flashy white house clinging to the hillside in Nacka, a residential suburb of Stockholm. Sweden has discovered the presence of several highly active spies on its territory. In recent years, some European countries have been confronted with all kinds of maneuvers by Moscow's secret services, which are constantly adapting their strategies, especially since the start of the war in Ukraine. Investigation'The new Russian espionage' (1/5). When Sweden tracks down undercover Russian spies By Jacques Follorou Published on August 21, 2023, at 8:30 pm (Paris), updated on August 22, 2023, at 12:23 pm
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