Last month, German media claimed that a Russian diplomat suspected of being an undercover FSB intelligence service operative was found dead in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
On the morning of October 19, Berlin police discovered the motionless body on the pavement in front of the embassy building, according to Der Spiegel.
Following the story, a representative for the German Foreign Ministry said they were aware of the diplomat's death but couldn't provide any other information.
The 35-year-old man is reported to have fallen from the embassy's upper floor onto Behrenstrasse in central Berlin, only feet away from the Brandenburg Gate, according to Der Spiegel.
According to Der Spiegel, the Russian Embassy refused to allow an autopsy on the deceased, and German authorities were unable to conduct an inquiry due to his diplomatic status.
The inpidual had been accredited as the embassy's second secretary since the summer of 2019, according to an official roster of diplomats.
According to Der Spiegel, German security experts believe he was an operative for Russia's FSB security service operating under diplomatic cover.
According to The Insider and Bellingcat, open sources have proven that the deceased is Kirill Zhalo, the son of Lieutenant General Aleksei Zhalo, the FSB's Office for the Protection of the Constitutional System's chief.
Investigators claimed they discovered Kirill Alekseevich Zhalo was registered at the same address as his father in Moscow and formerly in Rostov-on-Don after looking through a vehicle-registration database.
Western intelligence services have purportedly linked Kirill Zhalo to the so-called Tiergarten Murder, in which Georgian-Chechen fugitive Zelimkhan "Tornike" Khangoshvili was shot dead in broad daylight in Berlin in the summer of 2019.
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