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Re: UPDATED: British Prosecutors: 2 Russian Nationals Identified as Novichok Suspects
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/r...chok-lf6kfwrsl
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Two Russian spies were arrested in March on their way to break in to the Swiss chemical weapons laboratory that was analysing the nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack, it has been revealed.
The Russian GRU military intelligence agents were intercepted in the Netherlands while on their way to Switzerland, where investigators believe they were targeting the Spiez laboratory. They were expelled from the country.
The arrests followed a joint operation by the British and Dutch secret services working with the Swiss intelligence, the Nachrichtendienst des Bundes (NDB).
They were equipped with hacking equipment which would have been able to break into the computer network of the laboratory, the country’s institute working on protection against nuclear, biological and chemical threats.
It is the designated lab for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
At the time of the arrest, Spiez was investigating poison gas attacks by the Assad regime in Syria and the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
The Swiss NDB has confirmed the “case of the Russian spies discovered in The Hague and then expelled”.
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