Alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Saturday that she is now finishing an own book about her life in Great Britain and hopes to publish in the United Kingdom next year. Zatuliveter, a former aide to British Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, was arrested in August 2010 and [...]
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December 3, 2011
November 29, 2011
Russian lover of British MP Mike Hancock not a spy, says security court
MI5 claims, backed by home secretary Theresa May, that the Russian lover of a Liberal Democrat MP was a spy for Moscow were rejected on Tuesday by a national security court specially convened to hear the case. In an unprecedented judgment, the court – the special immigration appeals commission (Siac) – dismissed MI5′s assertion that [...]
November 29, 2011
Alleged Russian spy wins UK deportation appeal
The British Special Immigration Appeals Commission upheld on Tuesday alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter’s appeal against the order to deport her to Russia. Zatuliveter, 26, an aide to British Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, was arrested in August 2010 and then ordered to leave the country on charges of spying for Russia. She had admitted [...]
November 29, 2011
Court rejects MI5 spy claims over Lib Dem MP’s Russian lover
MI5‘s claims, backed by the home secretary, Theresa May, that the Russian lover of a Liberal Democrat MP spied for Moscow has been dramatically rejected by a national security court convened to hear the case. The court — the special immigration appeals commission (Siac)— has dismissed MI5′s assertion that Ekaterina Zatuliveter, lover and former aide [...]
November 7, 2011
New victim caught in ‘blonde Russian spy’s’ web?
The London-based suspected spy, Ekaterina Zatuliveter, 26, compromises another government official after a German Foreign Ministry employee sends hundreds of emails “to Russia with love”. The questionably extensive daily email exchange, with his alleged Russian mistress, may cost a German official dearly, reports German Focus weekly. It’s still unclear if the correspondence contained sensitive data, [...]
October 28, 2011
MI5 inquiry into Russian ‘spy’ was ‘Inspector Clouseau not George Smiley’
MI5‘s investigation into an alleged Russian spy who had an affair with an MP was “more akin to Inspector Clouseau than George Smiley”, a tribunal was told. Lawyers for Katia Zatuliveter, 26, the former lover of and researcher for Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, launched a stinging attack on the way the case was presented [...]
October 20, 2011
MP’s Russian assistant was no spy, says lawyer
If Katia Zatuliveter, the 26-year-old former assistant and lover of the Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, was a Russian spy she would be the first anywhere in the world to fight the accusation in open court, her lawyer saidon Thursday. Tim Owen QC argued that the only reason a senior MI5 officer was appearing at [...]
October 19, 2011
Alleged Russian spy admits affair with British MP, denies spying
A former British parliamentary assistant facing charges of spying for Russia has admitted to a four-year affair with the member of parliament who employed her but denied spying. Katia Zatuliveter, 26, an aide to Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock who sits on the Defense Select Committee, is accused of passing information to Russian intelligence services. [...]
October 19, 2011
Lib Dem MP quits Commons committee over aide’s spying trial
A Liberal Democrat MP whose former aide is accused by MI5 of spying for Russia has resigned from the Commons defence committee. Mike Hancock, the MP for Portsmouth South, said he hoped to rejoin the committee after the deportation hearing involving Katia Zatuliveter, with whom he had a four-year affair, was over. “I would like [...]
October 18, 2011
Zatuliveter tells about affair with MP at deportation hearing
Yekaterina Zatuliveter has denied spying for Russia at a hearing in London to fight her deportation. Zatuliveter admitted to having an affair with Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, for whom she worked as an aide. She was arrested in August 2010 and ordered deported in December 2010. She has not been charged with spying. The [...]
October 18, 2011
Liberal Democrat MP’s former aide denies being Russian spy
A 26-year-old Russian woman and former Commons researcher on Tuesday strongly denied she spied for Moscow and accused MI5 of providing no evidence to support the home secretary’s case that she should be deported. During more than five hours of evidence, devoted more to her personal life than espionage, Katia Zatuliveter described MI5′s claims as [...]
September 29, 2011
Russian ‘spy’ deportation hearing: concern at former MI5 chief’s role
A former head of MI5, Sir Stephen Lander, will hear secret court proceedings to decide whether Katia Zatuliveter, a Russian alleged to have been recruited as a spy, should be deported, it was agreed tonight. Lawyers for the 25-year-old woman strongly objected to Lander’s role. Tim Owen QC, counsel for Zatuliveter, described Lander as a [...]