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Associated Press: Russian spy suspects detained this year by Dutch

Published Sept. 21, 2018 at 3:43 pm

A handout picture taken on Wilton Road in Salisbury, west of London on March 4, and released by the British Metropolitan Police Service in London on Sept. 5, shows Alexander Petrov (R) and Ruslan Boshirov, who are wanted by British police in connection with the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Photo by AFP

British investigative group Bellingcat says two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy were briefly detained in the Netherlands earlier this year.

Bellingcat in its investigation released late Thursday quoted an unnamed security official saying that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov were detained in the Netherlands earlier this year and released without being charged.