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Skripal attack: Bellingcat names second Salisbury suspect | |
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A British investigative website has named a second suspect in the Salisbury case as Alexander Mishkin. | A British investigative website has named a second suspect in the Salisbury case as Alexander Mishkin. |
Bellingcat says he is a military doctor working for Russian intelligence and travelled to Salisbury under the alias Alexander Petrov. | Bellingcat says he is a military doctor working for Russian intelligence and travelled to Salisbury under the alias Alexander Petrov. |
Last month, the website named the first suspect as Anatoliy Chepiga, a claim rejected by Russia. | Last month, the website named the first suspect as Anatoliy Chepiga, a claim rejected by Russia. |
The UK believes both suspects are military officers who poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. | The UK believes both suspects are military officers who poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. |
The open-source website said it identified the suspect using testimonies from people he knew and a scanned copy of his passport. | |
It claims he was recruited by Russian intelligence in 2010. |