Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov spent years building up fake ID and was to take up internship at ICC, says Dutch intelligence

A Russian spy tried and failed to secure an internship at the international criminal court (ICC) using the false identity as a Brazilian citizen that he had built up for as long as a decade, according to Dutch intelligence.

Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, 36, accused of being an agent of Russia’s GRU military intelligence, flew to the Netherlands in April believing he had succeeded in an extraordinary effort to gain inside access to the war crimes court.

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