of chemical weapons in the hague. thirteenth of this year and carry out an operation to district. operation targeting the organization for the prohibits prohibition of chemical weapons b. c w the. we're joined live now by polly borger in london for more polly what further details can you tell us about this development. well investigators said that the russians that had been expelled from the netherlands were in fact hackers with the g r u that's russia's military intelligence agency and the cyber plot that they're legend took place it was in april that's notably around the time that the investigation into the poisoning of again his daughter yulia script powell was taking place and it was targeting this cyber attack the o.p.c. w which is of course russia is a member of the laptops that dutch investigators seized from the group they said had been used in brazil switzerland and malaysia as well and investigators even provided images of these four russian suspects they said that they had diplomatic passports among them i.d. experts and supporting agents and they'd hired a car and was scouting locations from where to tap into this network from the british ambassador for the n

operation targeting the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons b. c w the hague there was nothing secret about the visit by the russian technical experts it was a completely transparent and routine business visit. well right after that particular incident the russian foreign ministry actually published a statement with the fool explanation of what happened let me just give you some details from that statement now the ministry explicitly said that there was nothing extraordinary that the russian delegation checked in at the american old hotel which is located very close to the o.p.c. but you had quarters the statement the ministry statement said that the hotel has been used by the russian delegations for decades as it is located just five hundred five hundred meters away from the russian embassy and that also explains the fact why there were so many russian cars parked outside also it was mentioned and that statement that the dutch side was very well aware of all these facts presented in that statement but still. all has been portrayed as something fro