Man held in plot to kill Russian
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London’s Metropolitan Police said they had arrested a man suspected of plotting to kill Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian tycoon and vehement Kremlin critic.
Police said the man was arrested June 21 and turned over to immigration authorities two days later. He was not further identified.
The police statement came hours after Berezovsky said he had fled the country for about a week in mid-June after police warned him that his life was in danger.
Berezovsky was a close associate of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who was killed in London last year with radioactive polonium-210.
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