A 54-year-old former FSB spy might have poisoned Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in early March, British media report with reference to the police.
The man might have used codenames Gordon, Mihails Savickis as well as a number of other aliases.
Gordon’s cover name emerged during nearly five hours of questioning by police in London this week of KGB defector Boris Karpichkov, 59, The Mirror reports with reference to Sunday People.
In the early 1990s, Karpichkov, the then FSB major in Latvia, was Gordon’s сommander.
According to Karpichkov, Gordon, a ‘very intelligent, educated, ambitious and ruthless person’, gained a law degree at Riga University and was good at martial arts. The man has used the cover of a successful businessman in the security industry.
He is on the FSB’s Officers of Active Reserve list, a kind of spy territorial army called out for special operations including assassinations, Karpichkov states.
Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious at a shopping mall in the English town of Salisbury. The two were taken to hospital in critical condition. The were reportedly poisoned following exposure to an unknown substance. A bit later, British Prime Minister Theresa May said they had been poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. Novichok might have been smeared hours earlier on the handle of Mr Skripal’s front door at his home on the edge of the city.
The incident caused a number of rows and triggered a diplomatic war between the West and the Kremlin.
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ЮВ, belsat.eu, following mirror.co.uk
