Why was Sergei Scripal poisoned?

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26 October 2018, 21:11(8 years ago)

Sergei Scripal was a <x0mina clock”, which if it exploded would cause great damage to Russian politics and secret services. According to the BBC, which has conducted an investigation into the former Russian agent, he was helping Western governments in uncovering Russian spying cells and Russian mafia. Poisoning former Russian secret service agent Sergei [...]

Sergei Scripal was a <x0mina clock”, which if it exploded would cause great damage to Russian politics and secret services. According to the BBC, which has conducted an investigation into the former Russian agent, he was helping Western governments in uncovering Russian spying cells and Russian mafia.

The poisoning of former Russian secret services agent Sergei Scripal has a host of motives in the background.

In an investigation, the British intelligence network The BBC alleges that Scripal, contrary to thought, was not a retired former spy agent living a quiet life in England.

According to the BBC, until the day of poisoning, it has been more active than ever, operating in many European countries.

One of his stops had been Prague, where, according to BBC Scripal sources, he was offering local secret services information on Russian intelligence in the Czech Republic.

“He was working on high-level issues and had information on Russian GRUE agents“, declared Ondra Kundra, magazine reporter “Respect”.

And in fact, the Russian Embassy in Czechia is a site where Russian intelligence prepares secret missions across Europe.

If he was active in identifying Russian agents, that is no doubt why he was poisoned”, a confidential source for the BBC has said. Another hypothesis is that he was attacked because of information he was giving Western governments about the Russian mafia and its connections to the Kremlin. For this reason, Scripal had also been in Spain, but contacted by the BBC, the Iberian authorities have refused to provide information about his position. When it comes to the Russian mafia, a parallel between the Scripal case and that of Aleksandar Litvinenko, who was helping British and Spanish secret services with information on Russian organised crime links to politics, was poisoned shortly before delivering evidence to prosecutors. “We have ascertained interaction between members of the mafia and public devices. It was about corrupt officials. But interactions between the mafia and the Kremlin have not seen”, Spanish prosecutor Jose Greenda has stated, since decades investigating the influence of the Russian mafia in Spain.

I don't know the Scripal case, but if it's poisoned, it's because it knew something”, Greenda followed. Scribal was also active in Switzerland, Estonia, and the United States, the BBC's investigation, which adds that the motives for eliminating it may be numerous, from its activity to Britain's weakening from Brex and interference in mafia relatives.