The couple met in 2002. The man and woman have been married for 20 years. The wife left the loser spy a few months ago.
An employee of the British Embassy, accused of spying for Russia and arrested in Germany, left his Ukrainian wife a few months before his arrest, writes The Sun.
Svetlana Makogonova left 57-year-old security guard David Smith in February after almost 20 years of marriage, the newspaper notes.
Detained in Potsdam, Smith married Makogonova, who was allegedly born in Odessa, in 2002. According to a family friend, the couple met when Smith, “obsessed with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, was working as a flight attendant in the 1990s.”
The couple first lived in Ayr in the southwest of Scotland, then for financial reasons they moved to British Crawley, and later to Germany.
David Smith. thesun.co.uk
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About the detention of a man The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Federal Republic of Germany reported on August 11. The house and workplace of the suspect were searched. It is alleged that “at least once he forwarded documents obtained as part of his professional activities to a representative of the Russian special service, for which he received cash.”
Later it became known that in Smith’s apartment during searches found a lot of Russian symbols, as well as the Berkut chevron.
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