“Journalists Link Russian Suspects in U.K. Poisonings to Dutch Arrests?”

It has all the trappings of a Cold War era spy thriller: Russian spies travel to England with fake passports to carry out an assassination by poisoning of a former colleague when things get messy. With so much intrigue, such a story set in 2018 must surely be a work of fiction – not reality.

Yet, this is exactly what British authorities believe happened to Sergei & Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, on March 4, 2018. The father & daughter both survived the nerve agent attack after becoming gravely ill and spending weeks hospitalized.

British police, intelligence, and military personnel have assisted with the investigation, resulting in Prime Minister Theresa May publicly naming two Russian nationals as suspects, Alexander Petrov & Ruslan Boshirov. Petrov & Boshirov are presumed aliases used by the men, who are believed to be Russian intelligence officers working for the Kremlin.

Now, investigative journalists based in London have published a bombshell article claiming that Petrov & Boshirov may have also been arrested as spies in The Netherlands. According to an unnamed source in “Western European law enforcement,” the journalists contend that the Russian duo may have been arrested in the spring of 2018 and deported as spies.

The journalists cite a previously leaked report to European media that two unnamed Russian spies attempted “to smuggle hacking equipment to Switzerland, with the goal to infiltrate the Spiez laboratory” when they were detained in The Netherlands. The Spiez laboratory had previously analyzed samples taken in Syria at the scene of an alleged chemical weapons attack.

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