Five years ago, an Argentinian couple moved into a quiet suburb of Ljubljana. They had two young children and ordinary, stable jobs.
Then one day, police cars and special forces descended on their home. The couple were accused of being not Argentinian but Russian, and of living under deep cover so they could spy for their home country. And they are not the only people recently suspected of doing so.
Shaun Walker tells Nosheen Iqbal about the world of elite Russian spies known as “illegals” who spend years undercover to spy for Moscow, and how they are finally being unmasked.
Photograph: Shaun Walker/The Guardian
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