Impossible To Say If Person GRU Agent Based On Passport Data - Russian Interior Ministry

Russian Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov, commenting on media reports media reports on Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov suspected by London of the involvement in the Salisbury poisoning incident, said on Wednesday that it was impossible to verify whether a person is a GRU employee based on the passport database.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th September, 2018) Russian Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov, commenting on media reports media reports on Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov suspected by London of the involvement in the Salisbury poisoning incident, said on Wednesday that it was impossible to verify whether a person is a GRU employee based on the passport database.

Last week, Bellingcat and The Insider reported that their joint investigation confirmed, through uncovered passport data, that the two Russian nationals were linked to Russian security services. Such an assumption was explained by the fact that the men's internal passports under these Names were issued in 2009, while no records allegedly exist for these two individuals prior to this year.

"Of course, it is impossible. It is impossible to understand something like this based on the Federal Migration Service's database," Zubov said.