Thread by @anno1540

Visa Mizaev, the husband of businesswoman Olga Belyavtseva, who is on the list of Russia's richest women, has been linked to one of the biggest spy scandals in Europe in recent decades.
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Mizaev may have been a link between the FSB and businessman Arthur Eller, who recruited German intelligence officer Carsten Linke.
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Linke, who led the unit that is responsible for the internal security of the BND, was arrested in December 2022.
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Eller was arrested on 21 January. Linke and Eller were accused of treason in Germany. For his work for the Russian special services, Linke could receive up to 400,000 euros.
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In January, after Linke's arrest, Mizaev was still in Europe: he returned to Moscow on January 16. Now, Mizaev uses a different first and last name: a few weeks ago, Russian Oleg Shishkin, who was born on the same day as Visa,-
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flew from Moscow to India. A person with such data has never existed, but his passport number matches Mizaev's.

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