Bellingcat found a “Top Secret” in Petrov’s dossier in the FMS
The Bellingcat research group and The Insider found on the documents of Alexander Petrov in the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of the “NOT GIVENTS OF ONE” and “S.S.” (behind this reduction, according to journalists, the phrase “Top Secret” is hidden).
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In the FMS dossier on Petrov, which was at the disposal of The Insider and Bellingcat, there is no data on the receipt of other national and passports and information about the registration sites, as in ordinary dossiers of the service. In 2009, the Skripals suspect in 2009 received “in return spoiled”, his number was indicated in the dossier, but the journalists failed to find data on the document in the FMS base. The Insider notes that the FMS system has no information about Petrov until 2009.
The FMS database also does not have information about the passports of Boshirov and Petrov, although these data are available to other citizens.
Both Petrov and Boshirov received passports in the Office of the FMS No. 770001. In this administration, the documents were issued to the former deputy chairman of Rosneft Eduard Khudainatov, businessman Sergei Lisovsky, arrested deputy head of the department of the rear support of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Colonel Alexander Emtsu, ex-head of the Main Directorate of the Threat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Trubnikov, writes The Insider.
As Roman Dobrokhotov, editor -in -chief of The Insider, told The Bell, the publication received the FMS documents from Bellingcat: “Our task was to analyze the data and Russian open sources already received.” According to the representative of Bellingcat Eric Toler, the documents were received from the group’s source in the Russian police.
The BBC also drew attention to the code 195-79-66, which is on the stamp in the Petrov dossier. The source of the publication in the FMS said that such stamps put special services to employees and senior officials so that the FMS does not give their personal data to the bailiffs and other services.
At the same time, the New Gazeta believes that this is not a code, but a phone number related to the APC 195 in the Khoroshevsky district of Moscow. In the same area is the headquarters of the GRU of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. “Most likely, the number in the FMS certificate on Petrov is the phone of the personnel department of the place where they serve,” the former special services employee suggested in a conversation with the New Gazeta.
The Bell called the 195-79-66 phone number with 495 and 499 codes. They did not pick up the phone for a long time and answered only after the journalist The Bell left a message on the answering machine. The interlocutor said that this is a mini-market phone, but not in the Khoroshevsky district of Moscow, after which he hung up. They did not answer on the second phone.
The official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, published a post on Facebook, in which she called the “hacking of the FMS base” misinformation.
In early September, Great Britain published photos of Boshirov and Petrov from video surveillance cameras and stated that it was the GRU officers who poisoned the Skripals.
According to the British police, Boshirov and Petrov arrived in the UK on March 2, and on March 4, shortly after the poisoning of the Skripals, they left the country. In the hotel room in which the Russians stayed, traces of the “newcomer” were discovered.
The day after Vladimir Putin suggested Boshirov and Petrov to contact the media, they gave an interview to RT. In it, the suspects of poisoning confirmed that they were indeed in Salisbury, but called themselves the "middle hand businessmen" who came there to look at the sights. We wrote about the main inconsistencies of this version here.
Anton Baev
Bellingcat found a “Top Secret” in Petrov’s dossier in the FMS • The Bell • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive