Brit MP had ‘steamy affair with Russian spy’: report

Lat December,Katia was detained by M15 and accused of working for Russian intelligence while being a Commons researcher for Hancock.

He was on the Defence Select Committee of MPs who watch over the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and armed forces.

Katia’s other conquests reportedly included a Dutch diplomat and a European NATO official.

Mike Glasson,a lawyer for the Government,claimed she encouraged Hancock to ask questions in Parliament that interested her Moscow bosses.

He told her: “You have been reporting from Londongrad,from the heart of British democracy. You have ensured that the Russian intelligence services have eyes and ears in the House of Commons. You would ensure questions were asked in Parliament.”

Katia met Hancock at a conference in Strasbourg in 2006 while a student of international studies. They became lovers and he gave her a job in 2008. She is alleged to have been ordered to target him because he was known to have had affairs.

UK security services decided Katia was a “recruited agent”,”tasked to approach and develop a relationship with Hancock”,the London hearing was told.

To her lawyers question whether she was having an affair at the behest of the Russian intelligence services,she replied: “I have never met an intelligence officer.”

Katia,who had a Parliamentary pass and access to the MP”s emails,called the spying claims “laughable and insisted that she could open and read documents marked “private and confidential” but claimed: “I was not interested.”