Suspicions raised after police stop two Russian 'spies' in Davos

According to a Swiss newspaper, two Russians with diplomatic passports posing as plumbers were stopped by the local police during a routine check in Davos in August last year.  The Graubünden cantonal police stopped the two men in mid-August 2019 during a routine identity check at the venue hosting the current gathering of elite world leaders, according to the Tages Anzeiger paper on Tuesday.  At least one of them claimed to be a plumber but both produced diplomatic passports during the check, writes the Swiss daily.  "It is true that we checked two Russian citizens in Davos and they identified themselves with diplomatic passports, but we could not ascertain any reason to detain them. They were allowed to go," a cantonal police spokeswoman told Reuters, adding that police had never identified the men as plumbers.   A spokesman for the Russian embassy in Bern dismissed the report, saying two Russian diplomats accredited outside Switzerland had been checked and allowed to go on ...