Sergei Skripal’s niece, Victoria Skripal, said that former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia of spying for Britain, and his daughter Julia could not move from the UK to New Zealand due to health problems.
We will remind, earlier information about the move of Sergey and Julia Skripal to New Zealand was published by The Sunday Times, citing a senior source in the UK government. According to the interlocutor of the publication, new biographies were invented for both and the necessary documents were drawn up. They also received “help to start a new life.”
“Sergei and Julia have always stated that their health has been very shaky, they are under the close supervision of doctors. They constantly need treatment. I do not think it is advisable to take people and take them somewhere. How will doctors treat them? ” – asked Victoria Skripal.
She also noted that New Zealand is too small a country for two famous people to go unnoticed. “It is impossible that no one knew about it, even if they did a lot of plastic surgeries, which is impossible at Sergei Viktorovich’s health because the person has diabetes,” Skripal added.
In her opinion, the data on the movement of the Skripals could appear in connection with the filming of the BBC film about them. “Just last week, the BBC released a trailer for its film, and most likely this film ends up with being given new passports and leaving for a new country. <…> I believe that the BBC, for its advertising purposes, is fanning all this hype, ” Skripal added.
Earlier, Victoria Skripal reported that Sergei twice called her in the spring of 2019, and in June of that year, he talked on the phone with his mother Elena.