A Russian Jewish tycoon taking refuge in Israel said he shared documents with British authorities implicating the Kremlin in the murder of a former KGB spy. Leonid Nevzlin, who fled to Israel in 2004 after Russian authorities charged officers of the Yukos oil giant with tax evasion, murder and fraud, said Alexander Litvinenko had shared with him evidence of Kremlin malfeasance in the Yukos affair.
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