The Bulgarian unit’s leader was Orlin Roussev, 47, who with his deputy Biser Dzhambazov, 43, and another man, Ivan Stoyanov, ...

Russian proxy spy ring facing years behind bars for one of the ‘largest and most complex’ enemy operations to be uncovered in Britain ...

Vladimir Putin’s Russia has expelled one British diplomat and the spouse of another, accusing them of spying. The pair were ...

Vladimir Putin’s Russia has expelled one British diplomat and the spouse ... six members of a Russian proxy spy ring dubbed the “Minions” facing years behind bars for their part in one ...

The group also targeted British-based Russian Roman Dobrokhotov ... and Dzhambazov referred to the other Bulgarians as “the minions”, an apparent reference to the small, yellow characters ...

Minion soft toy adapted with a spy camera found at Orlin Roussev ... “A successful operation on British ground would be amazing after the f**** up Skripal stuff.” A box containing blood bags (Met ...

The pair were accused of engaging in intelligence activity under cover of the embassy in Moscow, after the UK convicted six ...

Growing trend of Russian spying on British soil A counter-terrorism chief ... were referred to as Despicable Me's yellow sidekicks the Minions. Gaberova was having an affair with Bizer ...

Over the course of three years, five Bulgarian individuals, assisted by a host of others, carried out sophisticated surveillance on British soil ... officers found a Minion toy with a camera ...

Russia had accused two British diplomats of spying on Monday ... after the Great Yarmouth beach house-based ring, dubbed ‘the Minions’, worked on Vladimir Putin’s orders to plot the kidnap ...

Roussev managed the rest of the Bulgarians, who he referred to as his "minions", Dzhambazov chief among them. "There are no bosses here," Dzambhazov wrote, as he issued instructions to Ivanchev.