They Drove a Kia and Paid Their Taxes every Year - Neighbors had No Idea They were Elite Foreign Spies

A 'quiet' couple who led a humdrum life in a sleepy suburb left friends speechless after it emerged that they were senior Russian spies operating a network of European informants for Vladimir Putin.

Ludwig Gisch would cycle to his IT start-up every day from the pastel-colored house he shared with wife Maria and their two young children on the outskirts of Slovenia's capital Ljubljana.

She ran an online art gallery, sent her children to the city's British International School, and was described by one neighbor as a 'gray mouse'.