Putin agents in UK ‘are ready for another Novichok attack’
RUSSIA’S most-wanted man has warned that Britain is “100 per cent likely” to suffer another Novichok-style attack.
Bill Browder, 56, has been at the top of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hit list since exposing corruption there two decades ago. His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in a Moscow prison in 2009.
Speaking from a secret UK location, Bill said: “Putin knows he can get away with it. London is full of people who would do it. There is a whole cadre of people here working for the Russian security services.
“There is a 100 per cent chance of it happening again in the UK.” Bill, a BritishAmerican
financier and activist, spoke as the latest suspected victim of Putin, 67, was being treated at a German hospital.
Leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny, 44, is in a coma in Berlin after allegedly falling victim to poisoning.
In 2018 members of Putin’s GRU intelligence agency were behind the poisoning of exRussian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, using the nerve agent Novichok.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after using a perfume bottle containing the poison that her partner Charlie Rowley had found.
Bill warned yesterday: “You have the people who aren’t officials on the payroll, people employed by the GRU or the FSB organisations and then you have freelancers that those people hire. Those people could also be British. They don’t even do it at arms length – they do it openly. This town is full of Russians.”
Bill has been in hiding since campaigning to invoke his Magnitsky Act, which can cripple assets of anyone violating human rights.
It was used by the UK last month to target 49 people.