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Wed 11 Nov 2009Hitmen kill ex-KGB agent turned tycoon in Moscow

DETECTIVES IN Russia are investigating the murder of a former KGB agent who was shot dead in Moscow on Monday in the latest contract killing in the capital.

Shabtai von Kalmanovic, a businessman, concert promoter and former spy, died in a hail of bullets in the passenger seat of his luxury S500 Mercedes.