A third Russian suspect in the Salisbury poisoning attack, has canceled his flight back to Moscow and could still be staying in the United Kingdom, The Telegraph reported citing sources.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th February, 2019) A third Russian suspect in the Salisbury poisoning attack, has canceled his flight back to Moscow and could still be staying in the United Kingdom, The Telegraph reported citing sources.
According to the newspaper's Wednesday report, the man, who the newspaper claimed was a Russian military intelligence officer using the false name Sergey Fedotov, arrived in the United Kingdom on the same day as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, two other suspects accused by� London of being implicated in the poisoning attack.
Fedotov was booked on to the same flight back to Russia as Petrov and Boshirov but, according to the newspaper's source, he checked himself off the plane before departure.
"It is not clear why Fedotov did not board the flight. But at the last minute he checked himself and his bags off it. He could still have been running around Britain," the source said.
The news outlet suggested that Fedotov might have stayed in the United Kingdom after he found out that former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal had not been killed.
According to the newspaper, while Fedotov's role in the poisoning attack remains unclear, one theory is that he brought the toxic substance used in the attempted assassination and handed it to Petrov and Boshirov. The second theory is that Fedotov could have been on a reconnaissance mission, letting his "colleagues" know when Skripal and his daughter had left their house on the day of the poisoning attack. Finally, The news outlet said it was possible that Fedotov may have orchestrated the poisoning operation from a base in London.
The Skripals were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center in the UK city of Salisbury in March last year. The United Kingdom has accused Moscow of orchestrating the attack with what UK experts claimed was the A234 nerve agent. Moscow has refuted the allegations and repeatedly pointed to the lack of evidence provided by London.
