• Russia Novichok, a toxic agent ten times more dangerous than sarin

  • UK Skripal Case: The Scent of Revenge

A third Russian spy,

Denis Sergeev

, has been accused of being involved in the poisonings of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the town of Salisbury (southern England) in March 2018, British police reported on Tuesday.

Sergeev, who in the UK used the alias Sergey Fedotov, faces several crimes including the attempted murder of Skripal and Yulia and former police officer Nick Bailey for poisoning with the chemical agent Novichock, a case that triggered a

diplomatic crisis between London and Russia.

"The investigative team has gathered evidence to suggest that Petrov, Boshirov and Fedotov

have previously worked together on behalf of the Russian state

in operations carried out outside Russia," Deputy Commissioner Dean Haydon, national coordinator of the Kingdom's counter-terrorism unit, said today. United.

Specifically, the police accuse Sergeev of seven crimes, including three of attempted murder and conspiracy to assassinate Skripal, intentionally causing bodily harm to Yulia and Agent Bailey, as well as possession and use of a chemical weapon.

These are the same charges for which two other suspects in the incident already identified by the police in 2018 are already accountable: Alexander Mishkin, who called himself Alexander Petrov in this country, and Anatoliy Chepiga, who used the identity of Ruslan Boshirov in the United Kingdom.

Investigators have linked evidence linking the three subjects to the Russian military intelligence -GRU- and showing that the trio was previously involved in similar operations in other countries such as Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

"All three are

dangerous individuals

. They have tried to murder people in the UK, and they have brought extremely dangerous chemical weapons into this country by unknown means," Haydon noted.

The amount of Novichok found in a perfume bottle was "quite significant and if it had been circulated among the public

, it would undoubtedly have killed hundreds,

if not thousands of people," the deputy commissioner recalled.

Sergeev landed at British Heathrow Airport on March 2, 2018 on a flight from Moscow and arrived in the country about four hours before they did, via Gatwick, Mishkin and Chepiga airfields.

The three men saw each other several times in the days before the poisoning, both outdoors and indoors, and Sergeev did not leave London.

For his part, Nick Price, head of the Special Anti-Terrorism Crime and Anti-Terrorism Division of the British Prosecutor's Office, confirmed today that this country will not request Russia to hand over Fedotov "because the Russian Constitution does not allow the extradition of its own nationals and Russia has made it clear after extradition requests in other cases

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

See links of interest

  • La Palma volcano

  • Last News

  • Translator

  • Work calendar

  • Home THE WORLD TODAY

  • Fact checking

  • Udinese - Napoli

  • Barcelona - Granada CF