LONDON, June 7. /TASS/. Ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, sentenced in Russia for espionage in favour of great Britain, and his daughter Julia moved to New Zealand and live there under a new name. About it reported in a Sunday newspaper the Sunday Times, citing a senior source in the British government.
According to the interlocutor of the edition, both had invented a new biography, and furnished the necessary documents. They also received “assistance in order to start a new life.” In 2019, the British media reported that father and daughter can relocate to one of the countries included in the intelligence Alliance of the “Five eyes” (Five Eyes). In addition to the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
Before The Sunday Times wrote that British intelligence discussing with colleagues from the CIA the ability to transport Skrobala in the United States.
It Cassady and his wife took Skripal to Heathrow airport, to pick out Julia for the day before Russians have been exposed to toxic substances. Wife Cassady more than ten years was friends with Kripalani and became the only civilians who received permission to visit Yulia Skripal in hospital after a suspected poisoning.
Previously, the niece of Sergei Skripal Victoria Skripal reported that he phoned her twice in the spring of 2019, and in June of the same year, was on the phone with his mother Elena.
March 4, 2018 a former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, sentenced in Russia for espionage in favour of great Britain, his daughter Julia, according to the statements of the British side, was attacked in Salisbury effects nerve substances. Later London made a statement that this substance was supposedly developed in Russia, and on this basis accused Moscow of involvement in the incident.
the Russian side has categorically denied all the speculation, arguing that programmes such substances neither in the USSR nor in Russia did not exist. Experts from the laboratory in the British Porton Down was not able to establish the origin of the substance, which was poisoned Skrypali.