So the Russians attempt to hack into the Swiss labs currently testing and holding the Novichok samples that British Intelligence obtained from the Skripal poisoning. Spies get caught and are expelled from Dutch territory and the EU.
RT Breaking News: Absolutely nothing to see here, just like there was nothing to see at those Olympics testing labs comrade.
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Last Friday, Dutch officials revealed that they had arrested and expelled two alleged Russian intelligence agents who were caught attempting to hack into the Spiez Laboratory, a Swiss national laboratory that is home to the Swiss Federal Institute for NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Protection.
The Spiez lab was testing two sets of samples that were of interest to the Russian government on behalf of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): the "Novichok" agent used in an attack in the UK against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia and samples from a poison gas attack in Syria. The OPCW's headquarters is in The Hague in the Netherlands, which may explain why the attack on the Spiez lab was launched from there.
The incident, reported both by Joep Dohmen of the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and by Thomas Knellwolf and Titis Plattner of the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger, occurred this spring. The circumstances of the arrests were not shared. An investigation carried out jointly by the two papers found that the pair were arrested as the result of a joint operation by multiple European intelligence services in Europe, including the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD). The Swiss intelligence service, the NDB, issued a statement confirming a "case of Russian spies discovered in The Hague and then expelled."
The timing coincides with the announcement by Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte on March 26 that his government was expelling two Russian diplomats. In April, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed to have received the analysis report from the Spiez Laboratory in the Skripal study "from a confidential source." Since the OPCW does not share data from laboratories with member states, the data Lavrov cited was either stolen or manufactured.
A spokesperson for the Spiez Laboratory, Andreas Bucher, said that he could not comment on the statement by the NDB but did confirm there was an attempt to breach the lab's network. "We can confirm that the Spiez laboratory was targeted for hacker attacks," Bucher told Tages Anzeiger. "We are prepared for that. Data did not leak."
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