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Documents declassified by the National Centre of Intelligence (CNI) have revealed the identity of the Russian diplomat who spied on Spain.  

According to Cadena SER, citing the judicial summary of the case. Petr Melnikov, who was number three in the Russian Embassy in Madrid at that time, sold secret information between 2001 and 2004 to Russia.  Besides his diplomatic work at the Embassy as councillor for political matters, he worked as a 'link' to the now extinct KGB.  
As is evident from the documentation, Roberto Flórez García, 42, sold Petr Melnikov confidential data who then passed it on to Russia in exchange for large sums of money.
Flórez, former agent of the National Centre of Intelligence (CNI), was arrested in Tenerife in July 2007 and put in prison when it had been proved that he had sold classified information to a foreign intelligence service. In the two properties that he owned in the Canaries, numerous documents were found in relation to the case.  
He was dropped from the secret service in 2004 having spent twelve years in its employ.
Summing up in the judicial investigation shows that the main charge against Flórez is found in a letter, recently declassified for the CNI, addressed to Melnikov that was written by Flórez in 2001, in which he offered to supply confidential information to the Russian secret service in Moscow in exchange for 200,000 dollars.  Attached to the letter was data relating to scores of Spanish agents; names, surnames, positions and destinations, proving the 'link'.
Former director of the CNI Alberto Saiz never connected these facts with the death of various Spanish agents in Iraq, although he admitted that some of the identities that Flórez sold to Moscow corresponded with seven agents who were murdered in Iraq.