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MOSCOW: Russia’s chief prosecutor accused unidentified exiled Russians of organising the murder of a prominent journalist in order to topple the government of President Vladimir Putin. Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika told a press conference in Moscow on Monday that 10 persons had been arrested on suspicion of killing investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya last year. He said those arrested belonged to an “organised crime group” led by an ethnic Chechen. He said some police and secret service officers were also implicated in the killing. The same persons may have been involved in the murder of the Editor of Russian edition of Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov three years ago, and the contract killing o f First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, a year ago, he said. The assassinations raised a wave of condemnation of the Kremlin in the West, with accusations ranging from failure to protect freedom of the speech to personal involvement of Mr. Putin in the killings. Mr. Chaika would not give any name, but said he was speaking about some Russians living in the West. Asked by a reporter if he had in mind London-based Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, Mr. Chaika said prosecutors were probing “various theories.” Russia media have accused the self-exiled businessman of masterminding the poisoning of former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko last November in order to blame the murder on the Russian President.
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