Notorious KGB spy scammed into dropping £82k from balcony into hands of criminals A KGB spy who caused havoc for the West is believed to have been scammed out of tens of thousands.
Gerontiy Lazovik thought he was helping Russian law enforcement get close to criminals, but he was tricked into throwing the equivalent of just over £82,000 out of a balcony in Moscow.
Reports said one scammer pretended to be Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, one of President Vladimir Putin’s cronies.
The dodgy group convinced the KGB pensioner he was “participating in an operation to catch criminals” seeking to defraud him and his wife.
The victim eventually “realised that he had become a victim of fraud and contacted law enforcement”, said the prosecutor's office.
