Mirror : Gareth Williams: Body-in-bag spy's links to Kazakh oligarch's son and two MI6 agents

Gareth Williams: Body-in-bag spy's links to Kazakh oligarch's son and two MI6 agents

Rachael Bletchly | December 31, 2012

Detectives believe the 31-year-old may have been murdered by foreign spies after covert meetings with the spooks

Dead spy Gareth Williams had links to the son of a Kazakh billionaire as well as two MI6 secret agents, a police probe has revealed.

Detectives believe the 31-year-old, found dead in a bag, may have been murdered by foreign spies after covert meetings with the spooks.

They also want to know whether he was ­“encouraged” to befriend Furkat Ibragimov, 25, son of an oligarch.

There is no suggestion he played any part in the death.

The leads emerged after an inquest in May ruled he may have been murdered because of his intelligence work.

MI6 has revealed he was “involved with two agents in the field” rather than only being a computer analyst.

His body was found in his flat in Pimlico, Central London, in August 2010.

Police have not ruled out a theory he died during a sex game but his family said he was not involved in bondage.

Scotland Yard said the inquiry remained open.