Secret service thriller
Exchange: Austro spy for Russia released
Secret service thriller about an IT entrepreneur with red-white-red roots arrested as Putin's agent in Slovenia. He is also said to have been part of a prisoner exchange ...
Using forged Argentinian documents as Ludwig G. and Maria Rosa Mayer M., the Austrian-born man and his wife - both in their mid-40s - had built up a perfect front with an online art gallery and an IT company. In a house in a quiet area of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, they led an inconspicuous life. Neighbors had no idea that "sleeper agents" were actually living next door.
Until the handcuffs clicked. During the trial, Ludwig G. confessed to having worked for the Russian military intelligence service GRU on behalf of the Kremlin Tsar. The couple traveled to neighboring EU and NATO countries, supplied other agents with cash and recruited others.
Part of the prisoner exchange?
Both were found guilty and sentenced to a lenient 19 months in prison - but will not spend a day behind bars! As the time spent in custody is taken into account, both Ludwig G. and Maria Rosa Mayer M. were released immediately on condition that they leave the country.
The quick end in the secret service thriller is also part of a larger prisoner exchange between Russia, America, Belarus and Germany. This involves, among other things, the release of the Berlin Tiergarten murderer in return for a former German rescue worker and the US journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned in Moscow.
Incidentally, Austria, with Vienna Airport, was already the hub of a spectacular deal 14 years ago, when 14 imprisoned spies from Russia and America switched sides.
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