Russia links ex–Yukos chief to spy–poisoning case

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MOSCOW (AFP) — The Russian public prosecutor's office said it had information which might help clear up the murder of poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, involving a former close associate of jailed Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky. "The information we have received shows a link between the criminal enquiry...

around Alexander Litvinenko as well as the murder attempt on the businessman Dmitry Kovtun, and the probe into a list of Yukos chiefs for attacks on the life and health of citizens," it said. "We are checking out a version according to which those who ordered this crime could be the same as those who are being sought...including the vice president of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin," the prosecutor's statement said. Litvinenko died November 23, in a dramatic case that has...