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Ex-KGB officer Boris Karpichkov, who fled from Latvia to the UK, announced that he had received a letter with threats to life, after contact with which he allegedly fell ill, the British police launched an investigation, reports the Mirror newspaper.
As Karpichkov himself told the publication, he has received seven threatening messages since the British National Crime Agency (NCA) handed over his personal data to the Latvian authorities in 2019, Gazeta.ru reports.
Before the collapse of the USSR, Karpichkov worked for the KGB and was engaged in intelligence operations abroad. After 1991, the man was transferred to the Russian FSB, where he worked in counterintelligence. In the 1990s, he was sent to Latvia as a double agent. In 1998 Karpichkov moved to Britain. Latvia has been demanding his extradition for a long time, the last request is dated 2018.
The ex-KGB officer is accused of fraud, falsification of documents and possession of weapons. In 2020, a British court refused to satisfy this requirement, as the judge considered that the defector’s life could be in danger.
We add that in March 2018, ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia for spying for the UK, and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, Britain.
On October 11, 2021, the European Council extended for another year – until October 16, 2022 – against citizens of the Russian Federation for the “use of chemical weapons.” These Russians include Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom the British authorities accuse of chemically poisoning the Skripals.
Source: Rosbalt
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