A Russian Olympic Committee official sacked by Vladimir Putin over building delays for the 2014 Winter Games says higher than normal levels of mercury have been found in his body.
The committee's deputy chief Akhmed Bilalov, who is being investigated by prosecutors for abuse of authority, said medics at a German resort where he is being treated had discovered traces of the toxic metal.
The Interfax news agency reported that Mr Bilalov said he was now feeling "satisfactory" after starting a course of treatment.
The Russian president publicly humiliated Mr Bilalov when he visited Olympic venues in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in February and found that the ski jumping facilities were behind schedule.
A day later Mr Putin fired Mr Bilalov from the Olympic committee.
He also sacked him as chairman of the board of North Caucasus Resorts, the state-funded company responsible for the development of resorts across the region.
Construction takes place near the ski jumping hill of Krasnaya Polyana Mr Bilalov said he would raise the issue with prosecutors when he returns to Russia.
But he refused to point the finger at anyone over the possible poisoning saying he had started feeling ill last autumn and that the mercury had been at his Moscow office.
Russian officials told Interfax they had not been contacted about the possible presence of mercury at the office.
The government has struggled to justify the expenses associated with the Olympic construction in Sochi, which, together with infrastructural development in the city, has topped $50bn (£32bn).
Traditionally used in thermometers and fluorescent light bulbs, mercury is a highly toxic substance that can be absorbed through the skin or inhaled.
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