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Former KGB spy shot dead in Moscow

2009-11-04 01:38:31 GMT2009-11-04 09:38:31 (Beijing Time)  AFP

File photo of shot dead Shabattai Kalmanovich(R), the chief executive of Spartak's women's basketball team. Kalmanovich, 60, a Russian businessman convicted in Israel in the 1980s of being a KGB spy, was gunned down Monday near his apartment in central Moscow after unidentified gunmen opened fire on his Mercedes from a passing car, Moscow city police said.(AFP File Photo)

Police investigators work near the blood-stained body of Shabattai Kalmanovich, the chief executive of Spartak's women's basketball team, at the site of his killing, Moscow, late Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.(AFP Photo)

Police investigators work near the blood-stained body of Shabattai Kalmanovich, the chief executive of Spartak's women's basketball team, at the site of his killing, Moscow, late Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.(AFP Photo)

A Russian businessman who spent five years in an Israeli jail on charges of spying for the KGB has been shot dead in Moscow. Sixty-year-old Shabattai Kalmanovich was gunned down near his apartment in central Moscow on Monday.

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