In July 2017, son Sasha died in St Petersburg while on holiday with a woman friend.
Family urged the BBC he modified into rushed to the clinic and died of sudden liver failure – they deem it’s going to also were suspicious.
Skripal himself modified into identified with form 1 diabetes and took insulin day-to-day.
In the summer of 2015, Yulia went encourage to Moscow, per chance to be with a boyfriend, however saved involved with her father over Skype.
Sergei’s elder brother additionally died in 2016 after losing kilos.
Alongside with his family long previous, a pal said Sergei made the appropriate of the peril.
He would delight in Russian dumplings called Pelmeni while playing World Battle II tank games on his laptop.
Chums train he would were fully pleased to creep searching for to search out his daughter as she arrived for her contemporary consult with.
It modified into a consult with which would wreck with both of them lying in a main situation in a clinic mattress following their poisoning with a nerve agent.
Skripal as soon as urged a discontinuance buddy that in the darkest days of the labour camp he saved his suggestions wholesome by building a condo in his creativeness.
His traffic hope that very same trick would possibly per chance be working for him now as he fights for his lifestyles.
In December 2004, Skripal was arrested. He was charged with "high treason in the form of espionage", and was convicted. Prosecutors initially argued for fifteen years in prison — Skripal was eventually sentenced to thirteen, in recognition of his poor health and the fact that he co-operated with investigators. The affair was not revealed to the public until after he was sentenced August 2006.[3] Skripal's lawyers have appealed the sentence.[4]
He was reportedly paid a large sum of money for gaving away the identities of a number of Russian agents
he was recruited to the British intelligence by British intelligence agent Pablo Miller, who then posed as Antonio Alvarez de Hidalgo
approached by the British recruiter around July 1995 and was given the codename 'Forthwith'
According to the FSB, Pablo Miller was also involved in efforts to recruit other Russian assets and was in contact with Alexander Litvinenko.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5465365/How-Sergei-Skripal-narrowly-avoided-execution.html
www.bbc.com/news/uk-43353178
In 1999 or 2000 (there is some debate on the date) he quit the GRU.
He was fed up with the corruption, the BBC understands from friends.
He was then believed to have gone to work for Boris Gromov.
Gromov had been the last commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan who was the last soldier to leave the country, crossing the so-called Friendship Bridge on 15 February 1989.
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