WARSAW, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Polish authorities have detained a second suspect in the June murder of a Russian artist who had criticized President Vladimir Putin, secret service chief Tomasz Siemoniak said on Thursday.
• Robert Kuzovkov, also known as Semyon Skrepetsky, died after he was hit by five bullets in the eastern Polish city of Biala Podlaska in June.
• Kuzovkov was known for his work criticizing Russian authorities and had staged a protest in Berlin shortly before the shooting.
• At the time, Polish authorities detained a 36-year-old man, who they said was using a Georgian passport.
• The second man, a 22-year-old Georgian national suspected of complicity in the murder, had been placed in pre-trial detention for three months by a court, Siemoniak wrote on X on Thursday.
(Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
