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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar and Luke Harding

Italy ‘was monitoring Lebedev villa at time of Boris Johnson visit’

Evgeny Lebedev and Boris Johnson at an event in London in 2009
Evgeny Lebedev and Boris Johnson at an event in London in 2009. Photograph: Ian West/PA

Italy’s secret intelligence service was monitoring the luxury Umbrian villa owned by the Lebedev family when Boris Johnson visited in April 2018 while he was foreign secretary, a documentary has claimed.

The agency believed the property, Palazzo Terranova, and a second villa nearby owned by the family were being used for espionage purposes, according to the Channel 4 documentary Boris, the Lord and the Russian Spy.

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