A suspected Russian assassin who MI5 believe was planning to murder an ex-prime minister was barred from entering the UK.
Umar Sugaipov was prevented from coming into the country last summer because intelligence suggested he was preparing to kill Akhmed Zakayev, the former Chechen leader and enemy of Vladimir Putin.
The decision to block the suspected hitman came five months after Sergei Skripal was the target of a novichok poisoning attack.
Akhmed Zakayev (pictured), the former prime minister of the non-recognised Chechen republic is believed to have been the target of suspected assassin Umar Sugaipov
Sugaipov was judged by British security officials as a 'threat to national security' and, more specifically, the life of Mr Zakayev who was granted asylum in 2004, according to the Sunday Times.
After fighting in the second Chechen independence war, the rebel fled to the UK when the Russian state reconquered the land and subsequent negotiations with Moscow collapsed.
But Mr Zayakev's life was reportedly in danger when Sugaipov, whose wife and six children live on benefits in north London, reportedly travelled to the UK with the intention of killing him.
A source told the newspaper that one of Sugaipov's daughters works as a beautician and that the family has never caused any problems.
The decision to block the suspected hitman came five months after former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was the target of a novichok poisoning attack
Suspected GRU agents Alexander Petrov (left) and Ruslan Boshirov (right) are wanted for the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
And the suspected would-be agent, who used to live in London but has since left, is also linked to the 2009 murder of Chechen Umar Israilov, 27, in Vienna.
The alarming revelations that alleged Russian assassins are trying to slip through the border and on to the streets of Britain comes after a number of acts of aggression by Putin towards the West.
In March 2018, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned on the streets of Salisbury with novichok – a deadly nerve agent manufactured in Russia's lab rooms at the height of the Cold War.
Prime Minister Theresa May said that Russia is behind the attack, but the Kremlin launched a massive disinformation campaign which questioned whether the UK's security services could be trusted and suggested Britain carried out the poisoning itself.
Yet the the CPS issued European Arrest Warrants for the extradition of the two Russian Nationals, suspected GRU agents Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, for the poisoning.
Who is Russian double agent Sergei Skripal? How 'Spy with the Louis Vuitton bag' narrowly avoided execution after selling secrets to MI6
Sergei Skripal (pictured) unmasked dozens of secret agents and gave information to MI6
Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence, was considered by the Kremlin to be one of the most damaging spies of his generation.
He was responsible for unmasking dozens of secret agents threatening Western interests by operating undercover in Europe.
Col Skripal, 66, allegedly received £78,000 in exchange for taking huge risks to pass classified information to MI6.
In 2006, he was sentenced to 13 years in a Russian labour camp after being convicted of passing invaluable Russian secrets to the UK.
A senior source in Moscow said at the time: 'This man is a big hero for MI6.'
After being convicted of 'high treason in the form of espionage' by Moscow's military court, Col Skripal was stripped of his rank, medals and state awards.
He was alleged by Russia's security service, the FSB, to have begun working for the British secret services while serving in the army in the 1990s.
He was sentenced to 13 years in a Russian labour camp when he was convicted of passing secrets to Britain
He passed information classified as state secrets and was paid for the work by MI6, the FSB claimed.
Col Skripal pleaded guilty at the trial and co-operated with investigators, reports said at the time. He admitted his activities and gave a full account of his spying, which led to a reduced sentence.
In July 2010, he was pardoned by then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and was one of four spies exchanged for ten Russian agents deported from the US in an historic swap involving red-headed 'femme fatale' Anna Chapman.
Mrs Chapman, then 28, was a Manhattan socialite and diplomat's daughter, who had lived and worked in London during a four-year marriage to British public schoolboy Alex Chapman.
After the swap at Vienna airport, Col Skripal was one of two spies who came to Britain and he has kept a low profile for the past eight years.
He moved into a £350,000 home in Salisbury and collapsed outside a shopping centre in the city centre
He is understood to have been debriefed for months before being given a home and a pension.
The former spy was living at an address in Salisbury, Wiltshire, when the suspected poisoning took place in the city centre.
Reports in Russia suggested that Mr Skripal was originally recruited by MI6 in Tallinn, Estonia, and may have lectured on the KGB tactics since moving to Britain.
He often went to his local shop to buy a particular type of Polish sausage and spent up to £40 a time on lottery scratch cards and was described as a 'polite' and 'kind' customer who often won money.
Adam Blake who owns local firm A2B Taxis, said he 'fairly regularly' used to pick up Mr Skripal, who is fighting for his life after being exposed to a mystery substance.
Mr Blake told the Daily Mirror: 'He had a black-faced ring with an animal on it, a wolf I think, and would kiss the ring and ask if you wanted to kiss it.
'Then he would look each way, as if joking, and say, "I'm a Russian spy". He would say it to all the drivers and nobody ever believed him.
'I would often see him standing around town in doorways too, looking around suspiciously as if he was really trying to portray the spy image.'
He also joined the £10-a-year Railway Social Club in the city and neighbours said they did not know him well, although he organised a house-warming party shortly after moving in, inviting people by dropping notes through doors.
It was also revealed how he had suffered two bereavements within just five years when his wife Lyudmila died aged 59 in 2012, before his son Alexandr passed away aged 43 in 2017.
This video shows the evidence used to convict Skripal of spying in Russia and his high-profile arrest in Moscow in 2004
His neighbour Blake Stephens, 24, said: 'He used to live with his wife but unfortunately she died in a car accident a while ago.'
Col Skripal was turned by MI6 when he was posted abroad as a GRU military intelligence agent in Europe in the mid-1990s.
During his years working for MI6, the balding spy unmasked dozens of agents threatening Western interests.
Col Skripal was so well-connected that even after his retirement from his spy service in 1999 he continued to pass exceptional secrets to London by staying in touch with his former colleagues as a reservist officer.
He was nicknamed 'the spy with the Louis Vuitton bag' after grainy pictures showed him carrying a bag at an airport en route to a meeting with his handlers.
He may finally have been snared by the FSB after passing his intelligence to MI6's infamous James Bond-style 'spy rock' – a fake stone packed with receiving equipment in a Moscow park.
Russian secret services exposed the ploy in 2006, revealing how British agents transmitted their data to the rock via a hidden hand-held device while walking past it.
Russian president Vladimir Putin (pictured yesterday) once hinted at how his country deals with spies by insisting that 'traitors always end in a bad way'
After Col Skripal's conviction, one official said: 'His activities caused a significant blow to Russia's external security.'
Chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky said: 'It is impossible to measure in roubles or anything else the amount of harm caused by Skripal.'
State-run TV in Russia even compared him to the legendary Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky, who spied for Britain and the US during the height of the Cold War.
Penkovsky was shot by a firing squad in 1963 and is regarded as one of the most effective spies of all time.
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