Denis Sergeev, high ranking Russian military intelligence officer identified as third suspect in Salisbury poisoning

A third suspect linked to the Salisbury poisoning has been named by an investigative website as Denis Sergeev, a high-ranking Russian military intelligence officer.

Bellingcat said Mr Sergeev, 45, is a senior member of Russia’s GRU agency who uses the alias Sergey Fedatov.

The alias Fedatov has been identified previously by Bellingcat, which also exposed the true identifies of the other two Russian intelligence officers who are suspected by Britain of the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a Russian double agent, and his daughter last March.

Their names are Colonel Alexander Mishkin and Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga. Both men deny any involvement in the novichok attack, claiming to have been in Salisbury on the day the Skripals fell critically ill because they were tourists.

Via Sky

 

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