New Zealand police probe ex-spy's Russia poison claims
New Zealand police on Thursday said they were investigating a former Russian double agent's claims that an unknown assailant tried to poison him on an Auckland street in 2006.
Boris Karpichkov recounted the incident on British television this week in the wake of the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter that has caused a diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow.
Karpichkov was trying to keep a low profile in New Zealand at the time after defecting to Britain following a falling out with his Russian paymasters.
Read more at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-police-probe-ex-spys-russia-poison-claims-012349921.html
Per the next few paragraphs, the ex-spy seems to describe being stalked and even an attempt to poison him.
Poisoning is the latest espionage fad, we will see novels and movies and tv shows on this soon though, it's been done some already.
