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Last Modified: 24 Jul 2008
Source: PA News

Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko accused the godfather of one of his children and a member of his own party of involvement in his near-fatal poisoning.

In a stunning twist to one of post-Soviet Ukraine's most notorious scandals, President Yushchenko did not provide evidence for his claim that David Zhvania participated in administering him a massive dose of dioxin that sickened him and left his face badly scarred.

But President Yushchenko's statement raised the stakes in the four-year-old probe of the poisoning, which so far has failed to yield tangible results.

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