From the old bailey. Theyve been in the uk for between ten and 15 years, the three defendants are orlin roussev, bizer dzhambazov, and katrin ivanova. The latter two have been living as a couple in a series of suburban properties in london for about ten years. Mr roussev arrived earlier in the uk, about 15 years ago, and he worked in financial services, in a technical role in communications, and later moved on to, he claims, own a company that was involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications. The other two worked, were told, in health care jobs. Thats what they told neighbours. They did own a local Community Group that supported bulgarian people who moved to the uk with english language classes and other things. This investigation was, is by the met Police Counterterrorism team, which has responsibility over espionage investigations. It investigated them in february. Properties in london and Great Yarmouth were searched. And these three were charg
Pleas to the charges. Our correspondent Daniel De Simone has been tracking the Court Proceedings and sent this update from the old bailey. Theyve been in the uk for between ten and 15 years. The three defendants are orlin roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov and katrin ivanova. The latter two have been living as a couple in a series of suburban properties in london for about ten years. Mr roussev arrived earlier in the uk, about 15 years ago, and he worked in financial services, in a technical role in communications, and later moved on to, he claims, own a company that was involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications. The other two worked, were told, in health care jobs. Thats what they told neighbours. They did own a local Community Group that supported bulgarian people who moved to the uk with english language classes and other things. This investigation is by the met Police Counterterrorism team, which has responsibility over espionage investigations. It
releasing it would do grave damage to their investigation. but here s the thing, there really isn t a lot of specific precedent here. a former president of the united states has never had their home searched by the fbi. a former president of the united states has never taken classified materials home and then not given them back. a former president of the united states has then never gone on to publicly attack the fbi and the d.o.j., putting the departments and the individual law enforcement officers and officials who work there in grave personal danger. that is to say the public interests around this case along with the potential consequences of withholding more information around the search could sway the judge into releasing it, if not all of it then maybe some of it with redactions. and while we don t know what judge reinhart will decide at this moment, we could know at any moment. the hearing started an hour ago. joining me now from outside of the courthouse in west palm
mcconnell. why his prediction for the midterms now catching some attention with our new reporting on where republicans are and are not spending campaign cash. plus, the new strategy from the white house on the monkeypox emergency, planning to roll out more vaccines asap, but is it too little too late? and the man accused of attacking rushdie in court. we ve got a lot to get to over the next 60 minutes. with us now is cal perry outside that courthouse in west palm beach. our justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian is joining us. danny, and former federal prosecutor and former judge, carol lam. if you ve been watching our coverage, you know there have been a lot of development. there s a lot going on. right? so here s where things stand as of 3:01 eastern time. the judge in charge of this case is ordering a redacted version of the affidavit to be released, but he s asking for input from the government on what those redactions should entail no later than a week
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