U.K. could resettle Skripal, daughter in the U.S.

Britain is considering offering poisoned Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia new identities and a fresh life in the U.S. in an attempt to protect them from further murder attempts, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.

It said officials at the MI-6 intelligence agency have had discussions with their counterparts in the CIA about resettling the victims poisoned last month in the English city of Salisbury.

The paper said its sources believed Britain would want to ensure their safety by resettling them in one of the so-called ”five eyes” countries, the intelligence-sharing partnership that also includes the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

“The obvious place to resettle them is America because they’re less likely to be killed there and it’s easier to protect them there under a new identity,” it quoted what it called an intelligence source as saying. “There’s a preference for them to be resettled in a five-eyes nation because their case would have huge security implications,” the source added.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Embassy in London on Sunday accused Britain of “deliberately” withholding information on probes into the targeting of several Russians on its soil. The Embassy said it had asked the British Foreign Office for “detailed information” on the investigation into the March 12 murder in London of Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov.

The businessman, who had received political asylum in Britain after being jailed in Russia for money laundering and fraud, died from “compression to the neck”, according to a postmortem.