London, Thanasis Gavos

Near his house in Kyiv found the BBC after months of research a Ukrainian man whom he accuses how he sells poison online where believed to be linked to more than 130 suicides in the UK.

According to the investigative team of the British news agency, Leonid Zakutenko advertises his services on a suicide website. The journalists ordered the poison and waited for Zakutenko with the package at his neighborhood post office, where they approached him.

Zakutenko had admitted in conversation that he had with a journalist who pretended to be the interested customer how sends five packages of the poison a week to the UK.

However, when the BBC camera approached him in Kiev, he denied the accusation and said it does not sell the specific chemical, which the British channel did not name. “That’s a lie,” he said, before covering the camera with his hand and attempting to walk away.

However, research shows that Zakutenko has been trading the poison for years.

This is a substance that Canadian Kenneth Law, who was arrested last year in his country and is now facing 14 counts of murder, also supplied to desperate people. Lo is believed to have sold the poison more than 1,200 times to buyers in 40 countries. In the UK it is believed to have been the supplier of the substance in at least 93 suicide cases.

This substance is legally available on the UK market, but exclusively for companies that make approved use for the manufacture of chemical products.

In case of human ingestion it can prove fataleven in a small amount.

Speaking to the BBC, professor Amrita Ahluvalia from Queen Mary University of London, specialist in vascular pharmacology, said that the chemical is believed to be linked to 133 deaths in the UK since 2019. She bases her conclusion on the analysis of blood samples taken during autopsies.

The British government commented to the BBC that the new Internet Safety Act will help shut down websites like the one Zakutenko uses to promote his deadly wares.