FBI To Investigate Poisonings In Russia
By Los Angeles Times | March 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities said yesterday they have opened a criminal investigation into the poisoning in Russia earlier this month of a Los Angeles physician and her adult daughter.
The FBI will be looking at whether Marina Kovalevsky, 49, an internist, and her daughter Yana, 26, were intentionally poisoned with the toxic metal thallium.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the investigation will be conducted by agents from Los Angeles, the bureau's legal attaché in Moscow, and officials from the Los Angeles County Public Health Department.
