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Title: Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy may have died after eating 'vegetable poison'
Post by: TomSea on March 14, 2017, 02:50:34 am

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Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy may have died after eating 'vegetable poison'
Perepilichnyy was named as the source for a probe into an alleged Russian money-laundering operation.
    By Fiona Keating
    March 13, 2017 20:09 GMT
A Russian whistleblower who had uncovered claims of large-scale corruption had traces of a poisonous plant in his stomach lining, an inquest has heard.

Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, had been out jogging near his £3m Surrey mansion where he collapsed and died.

He had been assisting Swiss authorities expose an alleged £140m Russian money-laundering operation before he died. He was publicly named as the source that led to the Swiss criminal proceedings.

Continued: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-whistleblower-alexander-perepilichnyy-may-have-died-after-eating-vegetable-poison-1611353

Title: Re: Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy may have died after eating 'vegetable poison'
Post by: geronl on March 14, 2017, 03:00:10 am

poisoning

called it.

Title: Re: Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy may have died after eating 'vegetable poison'
Post by: TomSea on March 14, 2017, 03:04:41 am

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He said: "The contents of Mr Perepilichnyy's stomach were flushed away very shortly after his death. There is a quantity of material that was subsequently retrieved from the stomach cavity."
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-39258525

I wasn't really aware of this case from 2012.