According to Western intelligence agencies, in Europe, there remain many illegal spies.
Politico published a story about the Russian spy Sergei Cherepanovo, who lived illegally in Spain for about 20 years, using a false name and documents.
With an appropriate story can be found on the website Politico.
Sergey Cherepanov lived in the capital of Spain Madrid under the name of Henry Frith. When he was exposed, the spy was about 50 years. He managed a company that represented themselves as specializing in “high quality, confidential consultations, and business services.” It is noted that the Frit often traveled on business issues in the countries of Central Europe and even in Chile.
Have Chepurnova was a legend that he was born in 1957 in Ecuador, where his parents lived: his mother was a citizen of Ecuador and the father is a citizen of New Zealand. So he justified his mild accent in Spanish.
According to Western intelligence services, Cherepanov was born in Russia in 1955. In Moscow he had a wife Olga K. Cherepanova and son Andrew. All the time that he spent in Spain, he worked for the foreign intelligence Service of Russia. According to Western intelligence agencies, Cherepanov is not the only illegally spy on the European continent.
Co-founder of the company, which is controlled by Cherepanov, Carlos Moreno Rodriguez said that he met a spy in the mid-90s. At the time of Cherepanov ended working visa in Spain. Together they founded the company, which helped the Russians to stay in Spain, and he began to lead her. Rodriguez said that once Cherepanov asked him to find reports on gas pipelines in Eastern Europe. At that time the European Union has developed a project of a gas pipeline from Turkey to Austria, which was a competitor to the proposals of the Russian “Gazprom”.
Russian spy coordinated directly with Moscow, meeting with other Russian agents in the different countries of Europe. He wrote reports about their work on a specially encrypted laptop and copied them on an encrypted flash drive that was left in special places, where it is then picked up by Russian diplomats in Madrid.
Cherepanov left Spain in June 2010. The day before he was approached by an employee of the British intelligence service, who said to the Russian that he was aware that “..” works for Russia and is not what it seems. British intelligence officer said that it comes to the Spanish authorities and the police. After Cherepanov left Spain two Russian diplomats in Madrid was also asked to leave the country because of their possible involvement in a Russian spy.
Cherepanov was engaged in search of information on the sources of Western States, such as Croatia. However, Western intelligence services saw no security threat in his actions.
According to the staff of the European intelligence services, Cherepanov was exposed using the same person who gave ten illegal Russian spies working in the United States. June 27, 2010, the Federal Bureau of investigation the United States has arrested 10 Russians on suspicion of spying. They, as well as Cheparinov were illegals and lived under assumed names since the 90s. In Russia in connection with this case was convicted in absentia Colonel of the foreign intelligence Service Alexander Pot, which went from Russia to USA in 2010. He was found guilty of treason.
