While I have no doubt about the story and these guys being GRU spies... These numbers are laughtably small. You can't imagine amount of corruption in Russia. A

While I have no doubt about the story and these guys being GRU spies... These numbers are laughtably small. You can't imagine amount of corruption in Russia. Any high-ranking policeman in a mid-sized city will own few villas like that. GRU agent who can smuggle anything and everything might easily have millions of dollars under their pillow.