Kremlin critic says he was poisoned for investigating colleagues' killings
Source: Reuters
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 / 1:15 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian and German doctors treating anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov agree that he was poisoned ahead of being taken ill two weeks ago, Verzilov said.
He said it was likely Russian “special services” were behind the attack, which he believed had been meant to warn him off investigating the killing of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic.
Verzilov, who runs an online news portal with close ties to punk protest group Pussy Riot, was flown to Germany for urgent treatment after falling ill two weeks ago in Moscow.
“They agree that it was a specially projected poison,” Verzilov told Reuters in an interview in a central Berlin flat.
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