Polish intelligence agencies found detailed reports on the work of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation from the Spanish journalist of Russian origin Pablo Gonzalez (Pavel Rubtsov), who was arrested in 2022 on charges of spying for Russia. » Agency»said an unnamed employee of the fund and a politician friend of Zhanna's daughter.
40-year-old Gonzalez, according to the interlocutors of the publication, met Zhanna Nemtsova in 2016 and began to be friends with her and the fund's employees. González was invited to the foundation's events, participated in their summer school of journalism for several years, and also hosted the organization's staff in Spain.
The first reports on Gonzalez's computer about the work of the Nemtsov Foundation date back to 2016, according to the Agency's sources. In them, the man described the activities of Nemtsova and her acquaintances, recounted meetings with oppositionists, including Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Novikov, listed his expenses and plans for the future.
So, Gonzalez talked about which of the participants in the summer school of journalism were from Ukraine and the United States, and which of them he suspected of working for the special services. He also led interrogations at the borders, including Ukraine, and compiled a dossier on his Polish girlfriend, which ended with the words: “She ate my legend.”
The recipient of the reports is unknown. The Polish Internal Security Agency assumes that this is gru. Letters from Boris Nemtsov were also found on Gonzalez's gadgets. According to the version of Polish investigators given by the Agency's interlocutors, he could have copied them from Zhanna Nemtsova's laptop.
Zhanna Nemtsova herself declined to comment, citing a non-disclosure agreement taken from her. Nemtsov Foundation co-founder Olga Shorina confirmed her collaboration with Gonzalez, adding that he «did not have access to documentation or confidential information.»
Hay informaciones que hablan de que Polonia no deja entrar a gente no blanca desde #Ucrania. Esso NO es verdad. La frontera está abierta para todos! En la foto con gente de #Nigeria, en otra más estudiantes africanos y gente de #Bangladesh. Todos han salido de Ucrania. pic.twitter.com/Mx2eZOuQLj
— Pablo González (@PabVis) February 27, 2022
Gonzalez was detained in a hotel in the Polish city of Przemysl near the border with western Ukraine shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the night of February 28, 2022. According to his lawyer, at that time he was preparing materials about refugees for the Spanish newspaper Publico and the channel La Sexta. Reporters Without Borders later wrote about the conditions of his detention that the man was «allowed to take a shower once a week and for months they did not agree on a dermatologist examination, despite skin problems.»
Pablo Gonzalez, whose family moved to Russia during the Spanish Civil War, was born in Moscow in 1982. As El Pais wrote, Gonzalez, who had dual citizenship, left for Spain with his mother at the age of nine, he and his wife had three children. He published in the Baku editions of Gara and Naiz, including traveled as a war correspondent to the south-east of Ukraine.
Gonzalez's father Alexei Rubtsov, who remained in Russia, has been working in RBC structures in managerial positions since 1999, notes the agency. According to Gonzalez's wife, Rubtsov sent his son every month 350 euros from the rent of their apartment, which Polish investigators associated with his work for the special services.