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Irish Mirror
National
Michael O'Toole

Unmasked Russian military spy who targeted the International Criminal Court claims to have studied at Trinity college

A man unmasked as a Russian military spy who targeted the International Criminal Court claims to have worked and studied in Ireland, it emerged last night.

Dutch intelligence services yesterday took the unusual step of naming and shaming the man they said was a Russian who was claiming to be a Brazilian, and online investigators then found his CV – where he claimed to have spent more than four years in Dublin.

The man -who Dutch intelligence officials claimed was really called Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov – used the Brazilian name of Viktor Muller Ferreira and lived in Ireland between 2014 and 2018, according to his online CV.

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