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Novembro 19, 2006

Ao estilo do KGB

Filed under: Internacional — André Azevedo Alves @ 17:55

Former Russian agent reported poisoned in London

Police are investigating a suspected plot to kill a former Russian spy by poisoning him in a London sushi restaurant.

Exiled agent Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is in a “serious but stable” condition in hospital, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

In a murky tale that could have come straight from the pages of a Cold War spy novel, Litvinenko said he fell ill after meeting a contact while investigating the Moscow murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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Litvinenko’s case echoed the poisoning of Ukraine’s Viktor Yushchenko, who fell ill after dining with security service leaders while he was a presidential candidate in 2004. Doctors found he had been poisoned with dioxin.

Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was murdered in London with a poison-tipped umbrella in 1978, at the height of the Cold War.

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