The Guardian website devotes an extensive report to the story of the Russian spy, Maria Tsalla and her husband Daniel Campos, after what a high-ranking Greek official revealed about the case.

The Russian spy, who identified himself as Austrian-born Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, had a series of 3D printing companies in Rio de Janeiro, making, among other things, resin sculptures for Brazil’s armed forces and hot dog chains until last January when he disappeared en route to Malaysia stopping to text his mistress in Rio.

However, when the “Maria Tsalla” case came to light, it was revealed that Campos was not the son of an Austrian and a Brazilian woman, raised in Vienna, but an “illegal” Russian spy married to her, who had received special, long-term training in Russia so that it can impersonate the individual and collect information.

At least six such suspected illegals have been uncovered in various locations over the past year, the website said in its report.

A high-ranking Greek official, who has not been named, gave more details about the case.

“We have little doubt that they were married,” the Greek official said, adding that it was an unusual case. He claimed the pair had planned meetings in Greece, Cyprus and France in recent times, possibly romantic encounters mixed with espionage.

The publication notes that the two spies had developed long-term romantic relationships in Brazil and Greece respectively, Tsalla as known with a professor who owns tutoring schools. Irina Smyreva arrived in Greece a few years ago on a Mexican passport, which listed her as the Greek-born “Maria Tsalla,” according to the official, while a friend said the spy had claimed she grew up in Belize in the Caribbean and returned to homeland to discover its roots.

The British Guardian website reports that in the only photos posted by “Challa” on the Internet, her face was covered by various objects. “We have no evidence that he was spying in Greece. The only illegality she could be charged with was using forged documents,” the Greek official said of the Russian spy. However, she traveled widely in Europe and secret services in the Old Continent are investigating her movements. Of the two, the “Brazilian” was the one who made more contacts in circles that could be of interest to Russian intelligence, the report points out.

Daniel Campos lived in Rio for at least five years and his 3D printing company’s clients included military and government agencies, and at the time he disappeared he was making the final payments on a new business building he bought in the center of the Brazilian metropolis. less than 50 meters from the US Consulate. As he prepared to pay the final instalment, the call reportedly came to flee, amid fears that the arrests in Slovenia may have put him and other spies at risk.

According to a senior Brazilian official the Russian spy left Brazil at the end of December flying via Doha to Malaysia, where he allegedly intended to attend a 3D printing course. He checked into a four-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur and told his Brazilian girlfriend – a vet in the country’s Ministry of Agriculture – that he planned to take a break in a Malaysian tea plantation region, but took a taxi to the airport on 9 January and since then the traces of him have been lost.

Tsalla’s contacts were also confused after her departure. She called her employee in late January, from a phone number in Kyrgyzstan, to say that “something important happened,” without elaborating. “She said she could take over her company if I wanted. Otherwise, he would just shut her down,” says a friend of hers.

The partners of both spies were left devastated, friends and acquaintances in Athens and Rio said, while “Kambos” and “Tsalla” are now believed to be in Russia.