The Russian news agency Interfax reports that Israeli-Russian businessman Shabtai Kalmanovitch, who was convicted by an Israeli court of spying for Russia, was shot to death on Monday.
Kalmanovitch was fired upon by a passing car near his home in Moscow. The personal driver of his Mercedes was seriously wounded in the incident.
Kalmanovitch was convicted some 20 years ago of having given information to the Russian KGB agency, and served 5.5 years of a nine-year sentence. He was released from prison in March 1993 because of ill health and as part of a deal in which Russia would help supply information about captive Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad.
Kalmanovitch later became a successful businessman in Russia, as he had been in Israel. He would have been 62 next month.