Just before 8pm one evening in September 2021, two men began an unusual conversation on the Telegram messaging app: how to kidnap a Russian fugitive they believed to be hiding in Montenegro.

Three Bulgarian nationals were found guilty of spying for Russia in the UK as part of a sophisticated international espionage ring run by the fugitive ex-Wirecard chief operating officer.

LONDON (Reuters) - Jan Marsalek, the Wirecard executive who went on the run five years ago after the dramatic implosion of the German payments company, was a Russian spy directing espionage ...

Jan Marsalek, embroiled in a world of private armies, secret documents and surveillance, is now one of Interpol’s most wanted men ...

An undated Metropolitan Police handout photo of Bulgarian national Katrin Ivanova who is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of being part of a Russian spy ring, London ...

Wirecard Fugitive Jan Marsalek: From Financial Fraudster to Russian Spymaster? By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - Jan Marsalek, the Wirecard executive who went on the run five ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three Bulgarian nationals have been found guilty of spying for Russia at the Old Bailey in London, in a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Jan Marsalek, the Wirecard executive who went on the run five years ago after the dramatic implosion of the German payments company, was a Russian spy directing espionage operations ...

A London espionage trial has provided rare insight into the activities of Jan Marsalek, the former payments executive, and how Moscow is outsourcing its spying Jan Marsalek, the former Wirecard ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Three Bulgarians were found guilty in a London court on Friday of being part of a Russian spy unit run by Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek to carry out surveillance for the Kremlin on ...