A man critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in the U.K is a former Russian spy, according to a BBC report. The man, Sergei Skripal, is a retired Russian military intelligence colonel and was jailed for 13 years in 2006 for spying for Britain, the BBC said. He was granted asylum in the U.K. in 2010. Skripal and a woman fell ill Sunday afternoon in Wiltshire after being exposed to the substance, which has not been identified. The news comes as a British inquiry last month concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” approved the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died in 2006 after drinking polonium-laced tea.
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