When in March 2018 news broke that former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia may have been poisoned with a nerve agent called Novichok by spies working for Russia's GRU, Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev became alarmed.
Three years earlier, in April 2015, he had been in a coma after being poisoned with an unknown substance. His son and an employee of his company also fell ill and were treated in intensive care. Although the Bulgarian authorities opened an investigation into the matter, they closed it in 2016 for lack of any progress.
Feeling that the Skripal case was similar to what he went through, Gebrev alerted the Bulgarian authorities. He believed he had been attacked because of his intention to buy a stake in a Bulgarian arms factory and that Russian GRU agents, potentially linked to a competitor, were involved in his poisoning.
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