Villa GRU in Thessaloniki. How did the Szaposhniks work?

Nikolai and Elena Szaposhnik settled in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s and pretended to be political refugees, after obtaining citizenship moved to Greece. There in 2009, for an amount of 275,292 euros, they purchased a pension called "Villa Elena" on the Chalkidiki peninsula close Thessaloniki, which served as a base for the liquidation unit GRU-2915 commanded by Gen. Avierianov for almost 15 years.