The Bulgarian court said, “” “CAALIFT’s Kabul Airlift” helped.

The Bulgarian espionage leader in Harbuns Yan Marsalik has helped an air organization from 200 Kabul employees to the CIA during the military decline from Afghanistan in 2021, and a court heard in London.

Old Bailey was submitted on Thursday by lawyers representing the UK -based group, who is accused of spying activities for Russia on a industrial scale.

Lawyers argued that Rousseff, who found Bulgarian pilots on flights, should be credited with the process of saving American spirits. He appeared in a referee hearing alongside Biser Dzhambazov, a colleague, and a third man, Ivan Stoyanov. They all recognized spy for Russia.

The remaining members also attended the spying episode – Catherine Ivanova, Vania Gabrova and Tahmir Ivanchif – after that, I was convicted in March after a three -month trial At Billy Old.

The six are scheduled to be judged on Monday.

At the time of the Afghan attempt Marleck He was in Russia, after he fled from Germany after the collapse of the WireCard payment group, where he was the chief operational official, with a value of 1.9 billion euros in the previous year.

Once he reaches exile, he was believed to have spying activities for both FSB and GRU, local intelligence and military intelligence agencies in Russia, respectively, and assigning Rousseff and his Bulgarian team on behalf of Moscow.

Marsalik and Roussev cooperated in a number of projects that surround Russian goals, including journalists and dissidents, at the request of Moscow.

But Mark Samarz, Roussev’s lawyer, was martyred, TELEGRAM messages, which indicated that the husband also worked on a humanitarian mission in August 2021 at the request of the CIA, via the American defense contractor, previously known as Blackwat.

Marleck wrote to Rousseff on August 17: “An interesting request from our friends (somewhat) at the CIA. Afghanistan. It is clear that all air transport companies dodging in Russia, Turkey, etc. “have already been sold” or refuse to fly because insurance will not cover the loss of the plane. Do you know anyone somewhat rogue and run wide planes? “

Samarz said that Rousseff has successfully arranged for Bulgarian pilots to raise more than 200 Kabul employees on August 26.

At that time, NATO allies were an emergency evacuation of more than 120,000 soldiers and civilian employees from the Afghan capital, where the Taliban forces reaffirmed the country’s control in the wake of the American military withdrawal.

However, Prosecutor Alison Morgan Ki CN said that Rousseff was acting on a humanitarian basis based on the direct demand of the US government “completely incorrect.” Instead, I argued, the arrangement was taken with a Constant, without any instructions from wider Western allies.

She said: “What Mr. Rousseff did is to know if they can take advantage of the terrible situation arising from Kabul … to see if they can earn money from him.” There is no evidence that air transport has ever occurred.

Telegram messages do not explain the relationship between Marsalek and Constellis. The company did not respond to a request for comment. The Central Intelligence Agency has been dealt with for comment.

Marsalek and RousSev used their contacts to make commercial projects, and discussed the diamond and weapons trade through Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the messages issued in the court.

In one conversation in June 2021, Rousseff Marsalik told “he deals with diamond men in Africa.”

“The close contact that was providing them for 4 years … he said … can you help me because they have no more money but a lot of diamonds,” he wrote, adding that he was planning to test a test for gemstones to Dubai for the next month.

Marsalik also aspires to work with communications in China to design a competitor for billionaire Eileon Musk, the Satellite Telecom, and said he wanted to mediate in a partnership between the Russian government weapons company Rostik and Autel, Chinese aircraft maker, to help the ARM MOSCOW forces in Okrin.

Television cache between Roussev and Marsalek was found on the UK police when they raided the Bulgarian house in Great Yarmouth, in eastern England, in February 2023.

Their interactions shed light on the life of Marsalik in exile. In a message from May 2021, he said he was taking Russian lessons.

“I try to improve my skills on some fronts, and the languages ​​are one of them. In the new league as an international runner, I must outperform James Bond,” he wrote.

In another message from February 2022, Roussev told that he would go to bed early after new plastic surgery to change his appearance. “I underwent other plastic surgery, in an attempt to look differently, and I am a tired dead and my head hurts me,” Marslak complained.