Sergei Skripal

Notable Trials

Before his arrest and conviction, Skripal served as a military intelligence officer in the Russian armed forces. He began his work as a double agent for British intelligence in the 1990s.

Skripal holds both Russian and British citizenship. He was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, a class of chemical weapons developed by the Soviet Union. The poisoning incident led to significant international diplomatic tensions between the UK and Russia.

Sergei Skripal has a daughter named Yulia, who was visiting him from Moscow at the time of the 2018 nerve agent attack. Details about his wider family life are not extensively covered in the provided text.