Estonia / 2026-11-02-ee-1
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On 2 November 2026 police, acting on KAPO’s recommendation, expelled Russian citizen Leonid Karabeshkin and imposed a Schengen entry ban. KAPO spokesperson Marta Tuul, quoted by ERR, said he maintained contacts with Russian intelligence services and people working on their behalf and shared information about Estonia’s Russian-speaking population. KAPO described the activity as systematic. The entry dates the confirmed expulsion and disclosure, not the start of the alleged activity. This is an administrative decision, without an espionage conviction or a finding of sabotage. No specific Russian agency or public proof of tasking for a particular operation was identified. Claims about contacts and sharing information are attributed to KAPO; grade C does not establish guilt in court. Exact coordinates are undetermined; the entry has no map point.
suspected
Someone has named a perpetrator, but this is neither a court finding nor a formal attribution by a state.
Named party: Russian intelligence services; contacts and information sharing according to KAPO
C - official suspicion
Kaitsepolitseiamet, spokesperson Marta Tuul, via ERR / 2026-11-02 / other
KAPO alleges contacts with Russian intelligence services and sharing information. No specific service or proof of tasking for a particular operation was identified; there is no judgment.
The precise period of the earlier alleged activity remains undetermined. The entry dates the administrative intervention.
ERR / KAPO spokesperson Marta Tuul / 2026-11-02 / secondary source
supports: the record, the date, that it happened, the attribution