Bulgaria to investigate third suspect in UK ex-spy poisoning
Feb 10 2019
"The hearing follows a report by the investigative group Bellingcat, which says an alleged Russian GRU military intelligence agent arrived in Bulgaria in April 2015, just a few days before Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrev was poisoned by an unidentified substance. Gebrev, a key executive in the country's arms industry, survived the attack, but authorities still don't know who poisoned him.
Bellingcat said on its website that the 45-year-old agent, who travelled under the alias Sergei Vyacheslavovich Fedotov, had been “conclusively identified as an agent of Russian military intelligence,” or GRU.
Bellingcat said Fedotov is also suspected of being involved in the Novichok nerve-agent poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury in March 2018, having arrived in Britain two days before the attack. Both Skripals survived but spent weeks in the hospital and are now at an undisclosed location for their own safety."
Feb 10 2019
"The hearing follows a report by the investigative group Bellingcat, which says an alleged Russian GRU military intelligence agent arrived in Bulgaria in April 2015, just a few days before Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrev was poisoned by an unidentified substance. Gebrev, a key executive in the country's arms industry, survived the attack, but authorities still don't know who poisoned him.
Bellingcat said on its website that the 45-year-old agent, who travelled under the alias Sergei Vyacheslavovich Fedotov, had been “conclusively identified as an agent of Russian military intelligence,” or GRU.
Bellingcat said Fedotov is also suspected of being involved in the Novichok nerve-agent poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury in March 2018, having arrived in Britain two days before the attack. Both Skripals survived but spent weeks in the hospital and are now at an undisclosed location for their own safety."