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Dr. Ivanov admitted in an August 1995 letter to Mrs. Romanov that a DNA extraction was started on one of the teeth. He says there was a "hiatus" and the work was stopped but gives no explanation why. It was then suggested that they should charge for the tests. Dr. Ivanov said that to the best of his knowledge the extraction was still in a laboratory freezer in Aldermaston when he left for Moscow on the 16th of July 1993. He admits that the other tooth is still in his possession.
At a news conference on the 10th of July 1993 Dr. Gill announced that their DNA testing had revealed with a 98.5 percent certainty that the Russian bones were those of Tsar Nicholas II and four of his family. Dr. Ivanov headed home six days later, the day before the seventy-fifth anniversary of the murders. In the preface of his book "The Romanov Conspiracies", Dr. Michael Occleshaw suggested that before he left England Dr. Ivanov had complained about political interference. Seven months after Dr. Ivanov's departure, in a letter to Mrs. Romanov, Dr. Gill claimed to have no knowledge of the Tammet-Romanov samples.
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