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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the reports, saying he could not believe the arrests would not have been picked up by the media at the time.
Stanislav Smirnov, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Switzerland, also shrugged off the claims, reported Russian state news agency Tass. It is absurd, just new groundless allegations.
Last week, British officials identified Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as the suspects in March's novichok attack. Theresa May said they were GRU intelligence officers and that the attack had been approved "at a senior level of the Russian state".
A day later, they appeared on television to claim they were only tourists who had visited the city to view its cathedral and nearby Stonehenge. The Kremlin said on Friday it would "consider" any request by Britain to question the suspects.
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Isabelle Graber, head of communications at the Swiss intelligence service, the FIS, confirmed that the two unidentified Russians, not thought to be Petrov and Boshirov, had been arrested earlier this year in The Hague. She told the Telegraph: The inspectors also collected blood samples from Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who at the time remained in a critical condition under heavy sedation in hospital, to conduct their own analysis.
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T he Spiez laboratory subsequently confirmed British assertions that the Skripals had been targeted with Novichok. The laboratory has also been investigating poison gas attacks by the Syrian regime, which is backed by the Kremlin. He did not disclose the source of his information.
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The Swiss facility vehemently denied the claims, revealing that BZ was only used in the lab as a counter sample to Novichok. Swiss authorities revealed in July that the lab had been targeted by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government, although it is not known if the expulsion of the two spies from the Netherlands was linked.
The March arrests were not made public at the time although at the end of the month, Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, announced the expulsion of two diplomats who worked at the Russian Embassy in The Hague, saying that "Holland had had enough". We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Click here for instructions.