Boris KarpichkovPolice are looking into claims a former Russian spy was poisoned while walking down Auckland's Queen St in 2006. He has said he was walking down Queen St in 2006 when someone threw powder in his face and he later became seriously unwell. "Next what I felt was a kind of dust was thrown into my face ... and the beggar just walked away. A police spokesman confirmed Karpichkov was in New Zealand between June 2006 and October 2007. Karpichkov was a Russian spy in Latvia, but in 1995 began passing information to the Latvian Government and its Western allies.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 15, 2018 16:07 UTC