The Russian couple lived in the Czech Republic for years and coordinated GRU operations – media

We are talking about the explosions of ammunition depots and the poisoning of managers of such companies, including a Bulgarian arms dealer who was considered a supplier of ammunition to Ukraine.

According to the authors of the investigation, including Hristo Grozev, Nikolai Shaposhnikov worked in the Imex group, which was involved in the arms trade. His wife was also involved in the work of Imex and directed her husband’s actions in direct coordination with the chairman of military unit 29155 of the GRU, General Andrei Averyanov. The Czech police found out that she passed on information received to Averyanov about upcoming arms sales operations.

Based on this information, the GRU prepared sabotage operations against companies whose supplies could harm the military interests of the Russian Federation. We are talking about the explosions of ammunition depots and the poisoning of managers of such companies, including the Bulgarian arms dealer Emelyan Gebrev – at that time he was considered a supplier of ammunition to Ukraine.

Shaposhnik, despite his modest income ($650 per month), owned real estate in the Czech Republic, as well as the Elena villa in Greece worth about 275 thousand euros, where GRU agents repeatedly stayed. According to The Insider, in 2015, Elena Shaposhnikova and other agents of military unit 29155, who participated in the warehouse explosions and the poisoning of Gebrev, were awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

After Czech investigators became interested in the couple, Nikolai began to abuse alcohol and died in February of a heart attack, the publication writes. Elena Shaposhnikova lives in Greece and states that she is being persecuted “through her Russian roots.”