On Wednesday, Harju County Court discussed whether to extradite Eldar Salmanov and Gelena Gusseva to Lithuania. The Lithuanian prosecutor's office suspects them of aiding terrorism.
Last year in July, a container burned in a warehouse at Leipzig Airport. A day later, a package caught fire in Warsaw. Another package burned in Birmingham. The Polish security service found a bomb in the warehouse that did not explode.
Security experts say these incidents were part of a Russian GRU operation. The packages were supposed to explode on airplanes but instead burned in warehouses.
Eldar Salmanov is a businessman from Narva. His company has been involved in logistics. He has done business with Russian state-owned companies.
Salmanov admitted that an acquaintance asked him to mail a package in Estonia. Gelena Gusseva placed the package in a parcel locker in Narva-Jõesuu.
The package went to Riga and then to Vilnius. From Vilnius, the packages went to Leipzig, Warsaw, and Birmingham. They all burned.
The Lithuanian prosecutor's office says the operation was carried out by the GRU. Several countries, including Estonia, are involved in the case.
The packages contained massage pads and nitromethane. Nitromethane is a highly flammable liquid.
The GRU recruits people who know little about the operation. For example, the task was simply to deliver a package.
Investigators from various countries believe the GRU operation was reckless and dangerous. The packages could have caused major disasters.