An unlikely couple, a doomed affair and their €64mn ransomware scam
By the time the police arrived, Elena Timofeeva was ready. The petite brunette with a heart-shaped face and deep-set eyes had spent the past eight years living a double life. In Marbella, she appeared to be an inconspicuous 43-year-old Russian transplant who had swapped her life as the owner of a small electronics business back home in Siberia for sun-touched Spanish shores. But online, she had a different persona: Drakosha (“Little Dragon”) was a top lieutenant in one of the world’s biggest ran...
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