A RUSSIAN businessman who has been accused of abandoning a shipload of explosives that killed 218 people in Beirut has been arrested.

Igor Grechushkin, 48, was detained in Bulgaria after being held on an Interpol Red Notice for his vessel linked to a killer cargo of ammonium nitrate .

The fatal 2020 bomb was allegedly triggered by unsafely stored explosive material and is considered one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history .

It killed 218 people, left 6,000 injured and 300,000 homeless - as well as inflicting £11 billion in damages on Beirut.

Grechushkin was detained at Sofia International Airport on September 6 as he arrived in Cyprus, but details of his arrest were only made public today.

The Russian-Cypriot businessman “did not resist arrest, cooperated, and nothing sus

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