UK Police have arrested three people on suspicion that they are assisting Russian Intelligence Service in spying.
“The arrested men are aged 44, 45 and 48. They were arrested from west and central London under the 2023 National Security Act on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service,” said the Metropolitan Police in a statement.
British authorities suspect that Russia is running a campaign of espionage, sabotage and cyber-interference against the United Kingdom.
“We are seeing an increasing number of who we would describe as ‘proxies’ being recruited by foreign intelligence services, and these arrests are directly related to our ongoing efforts to disrupt this type of activity,” said Commander Dominic Murphy, head of counter terrorism policing in London.
The Kremlin has denied accusations that it is involved in any such acts of sabotage.
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