Pair suspected of illegally gathering intelligence against Sweden and US for more than a decade
or the leafy Stockholm suburb of Nacka, it was a rude, pre-dawn awakening: wailing sirens, two Black Hawk helicopters clattering overhead and special forces in combat gear fast-roping through the windows of an imposing white villa – all at 6.01am.
The couple, who have not been named by Swedish prosecutors, arrived in Sweden in 1997, acquiring Swedish nationality about 15 years later. Once enthusiastic users of Russian social media – posting photos from the La Scala opera house in Milan and family skiing holidays in Norway – the couple fell off the radar in 2013, at about the time, court documents allege, that they began spying against the US and Sweden.
that they had been listed as owners of a Moscow apartment, at 36 Zorge St, since October 1999, although they may never have actually lived there.
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