>German intelligence is a joke at best

i'm not qualified to pass any judgement here, just Wirecard comes to mind. Routing sensitive payments, including to the network of secret informants, through Wirecard while the Wirecard guy (son of a KGB spy) was safari-ing (and posting photos of it) in Syria with the Wagner mercenaries... He lives right now in Russia, and it looks like German intelligence hasn't exacted any revenge.

TBF, Jan Marsalek (the Wirecard guy) is Austrian, although Wirecard was a German company.

Neither has anybody else towards any individual living in "run away to Russia" street.