00:00A Bulgarian man who was found to be the ringleader of a Russian spy circle dubbed the Minions was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
00:10The 47-year-old Orlean Rousseff, who led a group of five other Bulgarians that carried out operations on behalf of Russian intelligence, was the first of the five to be sentenced.
00:21I acknowledge that you were the first to notify a plea of guilty and others then followed. That is deserving of further credit.
00:30I also appreciate that this was a complex case and that your plea considerably simplified, shortened and concentrated the trial which followed.
00:40The result is a sentence in your case of 10 years and 8 months imprisonment.
00:46The group were based in England and targeted reporters, diplomats and Ukrainian troops.
00:52They also discussed kidnapping or killing Kremlin opponents.
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