Security chief denies part in 'Yuschenko poisoning'

A top security agency official today denied any involvement in the poisoning of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Mr Yushchenko accused the authorities of poisoning him in an attempted “political murder” to push him out of the presidential race, and said he was probably poisoned at a dinner with Ukraine’s security agency chief Ihor Smeshko and his first deputy, Volodymyr Satsyuk on September 5.