Potential Litvinenko case witness released from jail
30/11/2007 - 08:11:57A former KGB agent, who claims he warned Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko he was being hunted by a government hit squad, was released from prison today, one of his lawyers said.
Mikhail Trepashkin, who investigated allegations that the Federal Security Service, the KGB’s main successor agency, was involved in a series of 1999 apartment house bombings, walked out of the prison in Nizhny Tagil about 900 miles east of Moscow, lawyer Sergei Kuznetsov told The Associated Press.
Trepashkin was arrested in October 2003 on charges of illegal weapons possession and later convicted of divulging state secrets.
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