In a secret document handed over by the Slovenian authorities Greek police a few weeks ago is said to be hiding the answer to a question that had been raised since last Thursday about “how the National Intelligence Service uncovered the identity of Maria Zalla“. That is a Russian woman Irena S.who lived in the country under false information and allegedly worked on their behalf Russian secret services.

According to an informed source “K”, the document was compiled by the Slovenian police and handed over to EL.AS. through the official Europol communication channel. At the same time, the security services of the Central European country turned to the Greek police with a request to answer them if an androgynous man, who was arrested on December 5, 2022 in a quiet suburb of Ljubljana for espionage For Russia associated with Greece.

But how did it happen? The couple, both 38 years old, lived in Slovenia on fake Argentinean passports under the names Ludwig Gish and Maria Rosa Mayer Muñoz. During the interrogation that followed the arrests, the woman allegedly told the Slovenian police that she was from Greece. Following this, as refers to “K” According to the same source of information, the Slovenian police sent a request through the official channels of cooperation with EL.AS. to check if the woman in question was indeed naturalized in Greece. As a result, it turned out that both the man and the woman were citizens of Russia and lived in Slovenia opening in 2017 in Ljubljana of a real estate office and an antique shop. However, it is believed that cooperation between the security and intelligence services of Greece and Slovenia (ss SOVA – the initials of the Slovenian EYP) eventually led to the disclosure of the identity of “Maria Tsalla” in early January. In a statement, the Slovenian police said that “the two arrested were employees of a foreign secret service” and that they were “spying in Slovenia on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency”, which they did not name. According to the Slovenian press, the couple lived in Ljubljana and traveled frequently to other EU countries and the Balkans.

Maria Tsalla obtained a fake ID in 2018 thanks to the help of two Greek lawyers, one of whom is no longer alive. We are talking about a young lawyer from Athens, who dealt with the law of foreigners and suffered a heart attack. His former colleagues explained that he had problems with the cardiovascular system and that he had been admitted to Evangelismos Hospital.