“Born in Greece.” This is what he said, according to absolutely confirmed the information “K”in her travel documents Maria Mayerwho was arrested in December 2022 in Slovenia on charges of spying for Russia.

Her husband was also arrested on the same charge. Ludwig Gies. Together with their two children, they settled in 2017 in a private house in Ljubljana, pretending to have been forced to leave Argentina, where they allegedly came from, worried about the ever-increasing crime rate.

In fact, an investigation by the Slovenian Intelligence Service (SOVA) showed that it was Russian citizenswho, under the guise of false documents, acted on behalf of the Russian intelligence agency, the SVR.

In his written statement “K”A Slovenian police spokesman stressed that “the two suspects are members of a foreign intelligence service who lived and operated in Slovenia under an assumed name with illegally obtained travel documents.”

Both had fake Argentine travel documents. According to the British Guardian, Ludwig Gies used a passport that states he was born in 1984 in Namibia. Respectively, “K” shows today that Maria Mayer used a fake passport showing that she was born in Hellas.

The passport of Maria Mayer, who was detained in the capital of Slovenia, indicated that she was born in our country.

Immediately after the arrest of spies in Ljubljana, the Slovenian police sent a letter to the Greek police asking them to confirm whether Maria Rosa Mayer Munos was naturalized in Greece, as was her full name.

The document was sent to the International Police Cooperation Directorate (DDAS) of the Hellenic Police Headquarters. and gave rise to a secret investigation by the State Security Service into the central registers of Attica with a negative result.

Since so far study “K” it has not been clarified whether the particular police investigation at the registry offices of Athens and Amarousi was the one that revealed the real identity of Irena Smireva. A Russian spy who settled in Athens in 2018 and from 2020 until the beginning of the year lived in Pagrati under the assumed name of Maria Tsalla.

However, it is believed to be reliable that he disclosed to the police and especially the EMP, which was investigating the Tsalla case, the methods of action of the so-called “illegals” or in English “illegals” who act on behalf of the Russian special services. . Like the couple arrested in Ljubljana, Maria Tsalla, when she arrived in Greece, used fake travel documents stating that she came from a Latin American country. So did her alleged Brazilian husband Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, who disappeared in the same way as Challa or Smireva in early January 2023.

Travel to Cyprus

From current study “K” in the case, it appears that between 2018 and 2020, that is, before Smireva acquired a new Greek identity, the couple made joint trips to Cyprus, which until recently were not known. Even the question of whether the original plan of the Russian special services included their activities on the island before the Russian spy finally decided to settle in Pagrati is being investigated.