A woman with a passport in the name of Maria Rivera became a socialite in Italy and was a member of NATO circles. After the Skripal poisoning was uncovered in 2018, she returned to Russia, according to Bellingcat investigator Elliot Higgins..

A woman with a passport in the name of Maria Adela Kufeldt Rivera is a child of the love of a German father and a Peruvian mother. Born in Peru and abandoned by her mother in Moscow during the 1980 Olympics. She was raised by foster parents.

Matured Maria moved to the West and became a socialite in Italy. She had boutiques selling jewelry. She actively made connections with NATO officers who served in Italy..

After exposing the participants in the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in 2018, she disappeared.. Then she announced on social networks that she was battling cancer..

In fact, she returned to Russia, according to an investigation released on Friday, August 26 by Bellingcat journalists..

Investigators found that in 2006, this woman received a Russian passport in the name of Maria Adela Kufeldt Rivera, and this passport was from the same series as the GRU officers who are associated with the poisoning of Skripal and the Bulgarian gunsmith Emelyan Gebrev.

A year earlier, a woman with the same name and date of birth tried to obtain Peruvian citizenship in Lima, the country's capital, but was denied because a fake baptism certificate was found among her documents..

In 2013, Rivera registered in Italy the jewelry brand Serein " Investigators found that the enamel jewelry exhibited there could be bought in Chinese online stores for 11-18 euros..

Rivera hosted social events in Naples, and in 2015 became a secretary at the local branch of the Lion's Club charity organization, created by NATO officers stationed in Naples. According to the journalists, Rivera "

Several of Rivera's acquaintances, who were interviewed by journalists, called her legend "

In the fall of 2018, when Bellingcat and Insider named those accused of poisoning Skripal as GRU officers and published their passport data with characteristic series and numbers, Rivera returned to Russia.. Investigators claim that she now lives under the name Olga Kolobova and works in a pension fund..