Russian journalists find a phone number in the documents possibly tying him to the GRU (Abbrev.)

Novaya Gazeta via Meduza ^ | 14 september 2018 | None Attributed

[BeadCounter]

On September 14, the open-source intelligence group Bellingcat and the investigative news website The Insider released passport data belonging to Alexander Petrov, one of the men identified by British authorities as a suspect in the March 4 nerve-agent attack in Salisbury, showing that his passport files contain various “top-secret” markings that seem to contradict his claims that he’s a mere civilian.

Hours later, the newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that the leaked passport records include yet another piece of evidence linking Petrov to Russia’s intelligence services: below one marking, the phone number 195-79-66 appears. This number, the newspaper says, is linked to the Russian Defense Ministry’s Military Intelligence Directorate.

According to Novaya Gazeta, the automatic telephone station number “195” is tied to Moscow’s Khoroshkovsky District, which is also home to the headquarters of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Military Intelligence Directorate.

[BeadCounter]

Full headline: "After a Salisbury suspect's passport records leak, Russian journalists find a phone number in the documents possibly tying him to the GRU"

Russian press itself, high chances they, meaning the government, lied about this.