Swiss police say Davos ‘plumbers’ were Russian spies sent to install surveillance gear at key facilities

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Alerted to their unusually long stay in the high-end resort, police picked up two Russian men in Davos in August

Five months before world leaders began their pilgrimage to the annual World Economic Forum this week — among them U.S. president Donald Trump — Swiss police interrupted what reports on Tuesday claimed was the beginnings of a Russian spying operation in the secluded Alpine town.The men claimed diplomatic protections, but had not been registered as official diplomats with Bern, the police said.

Switzerland’s security services have been particularly jumpy about increased Russian intelligence activity in the country in recent years. While Switzerland has long been a playground for Russia’s wealthy émigrés, more recent reports have identified the state — by long tradition a diplomatically neutral no man’s land, at the heart of Europe — as a hub of Russian intrigue.

Since 2017, a probe by the Swiss attorney-general has been investigating a huge Russian spying organisation against the World Anti-Doping Agency and other sporting bodies, including the Court of Arbitration for Sport, based in Lausanne.

 

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