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Russia's FSB Opens Probe Into Alleged MI6 Activity
MOSCOW, July 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Britain's foreign intelligence service, MI6, recruited a Russian man for spying, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.
The FSB is looking into accusations that MI6 tried to recruit former Russian tax police official Vyacheslav Zharko between 2003 and 2007.
Meanwhile, "Komsomolskaya pravda" is carrying an interview with Zharko today in which he claims former FSB officer Aleksandr Litvinenko's death was caused by Litvinenko's own experiments, not, as some have said, by FSB poisoning. Litvinenko died in November 2006 from exposure to a radioactive isotope of polonium.
On July 6, Russia said Britain was wrong not to prosecute self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky for allegedly callingin a newspaper interview earlier this year for the use of "force" to oust President Vladimir Putin.
Britain's Crown Prosecution on July 5 said Berezovsky, who has been granted refugee status in Britain, would not be charged with any criminal offenses. It cited a lack of evidence that he was inciting the use of violence.
Russian prosecutors said this week they would try Berezovsky in absentia for plotting a coup.
(with material from agency reports)
Copyright (c) 2007. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org
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