Ireland opened an investigation into the case six months ago, after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation broke up a Russian spy ring, which consisted of 11 men and women posing as US citizens. Among them was 28-year-old Ana Chapman, who became a tabloid star after the affair.
It was established that several spies used Irish passports to travel both from Russia and to Russia and other countries, the AP agency reported.
The Foreign Office in Dublin announced that police had discovered that Russian agents had stolen the personal information of six real Irish citizens and used it to create fake Irish passports.
In a statement from the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is stated that the Russian ambassador was informed that "the activities of the Russian intelligence services related to the forgery of Irish passports and the theft of the identities of six Irish citizens are completely unacceptable and are not the behavior that the Irish government would expect from a country with which it has friendly relations." ".
The announcement does not specify whether it was determined whether Rachmaninov was directly connected to identity theft and document falsification.
According to AP, most of the mentioned Russian spies had lived in the US since the 1990s and were instructed to infiltrate influential business and political circles, which they mostly failed to do.
After the affair was discovered, the US expelled 10 spies to Russia in July, in exchange for four people convicted in Russia of spying for the West.
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