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Nowhere was the telephone registered more often than in the area of FSB headquarters on Lubyanka Square. Between January and November 2024, a cell tower there registered the device 304 times.

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Photos and data show that he makes frequent visits to his girlfriend Tatiana Spiridonova. He sometimes also may spend time in an Ibis Hotel right around the corner from Spiridonova’s apartment. The address of the hotel was found in a hacked insurance database as a potential additional home. Furthermore, his mobile phone was registered several times between January and February 2024 by a cell tower located only around 200 meters from the hotel.

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According to location data, the telephone was registered at 10:08 a.m. on February 21, 2024, near the train station in the Russian border town of Mitrofanovka, following 12 days of not being picked up anywhere. Only a few kilometers separate Mitrofanovka from Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.

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Marsalek’s apparent route back to Moscow goes along the train line via the southern Russian city of Voronezh. At 11 p.m., the phone was once again at the five-star Swissôtel.

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