The FSB has identified those involved in the leakage of personal data of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, whom London accuses of poisoning former GRU colonel Sergey Skripal. It is reported by Rosbalt, citing its sources.

According to the agency, during the “short period”, the FSB officers conducted more than 60 events aimed at stopping the leakage of extracts from the databases..

“First of all, they came to private detectives and the so-called“ probivshchik ”- those who were seen in the trade in information from closed databases,” said a source.

He noted that “many cases” had been initiated under a number of articles of the Criminal Code of Russia, including “Illegal receipt and disclosure of information constituting commercial, tax or bank secrecy”, “Excess of powers by a private detective” and “Violation of privacy”.

The source also said that, according to his data, a border guard officer in the North-West region and an employee of one of the FTS departments. He added that the first one could sell abroad data on the movements of Petrov and Boshirov, as well as a number of other persons..

The source stressed that the criminal cases are not related to the suspects in Salisbury poisoning..