Alexander Litvinenko: Poisoned Russian, Defense move or long planned 'hit'
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| QUOTE | Germany Handed Over Litvinenko Files to Russia
Germany has handed over to Russia the files related to assassination of FSB ex-officer Alexander Litvinenko and attempted murder of Dmitry Kovtun, RIA Novosti reported with reference to Vladimir Markin, the official representative of Investigating Committee of the RF General Prosecutor Office. The files were provided in July, during the visit of investigators’ delegation to Germany.
“Manifesting readiness for cooperation with Russia’s colleagues and in execution of Russia’s request, Germany’s competent authorities have handed over to Russia’s delegation a portion of files of the criminal case that is of interest for probing into the murder of Litvinenko,” Markin said.
FSB ex-officer Litvinenko fled to Britain in 2000 and was granted political asylum there. He was poisoned by radioactive polonium-210 and died in London in November of 2006. So far, British authorities have released neither the official conclusion on the cause of his death nor the results of postmortem examination.
British detectives blame the murder on Russia’s businessman and State Duma member Andrei Lugovoy and London demands his extradition, to no avail though. Similar to Litvinenko, Lugovoy had once been the officer of FSB.
Russia’s investigators first requested the files related to Litvinenko case far back December 27, 2006, but no response followed. So, the detectives went to Hamburg July 13, 2008 and were given the required files.
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| QUOTE | From The Times
November 3, 2009
Andrei Lugovoy remains defiant over Litvinenko murder
The man at the centre of the rift with Moscow sent a defiant message yesterday over the failure of Britain to extradite him for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
Andrei Lugovoy told The Times that it was David Miliband who was to blame for souring relations by expelling four Russian diplomats after the Kremlin rejected demands to hand him over for trial. Mr Lugovoy, a former KGB officer, said that he was innocent, and accused the Crown Prosecution Service of blaming him for the murder to cover up the involvement of the British secret service.
He claimed that Mr Litvinenko had tried to recruit him to work for MI6 when the pair met in London in 2006. “My message to David Miliband is that he should acknowledge that Litvinenko was part of British special services. But he is silent about that. The rest is just lies,” Mr Lugovoy said.
He repeated an offer made to The Times last year to meet detectives in London and answer questions about the case with his business partner, Dmitri Kovtun, who also met Mr Litvinenko on the day he was poisoned with polonium-210 at an hotel.
He said, however, that they would need guarantees against arrest, an assurance Britain would never give.
Mr Lugovoy said he had tried to deliver his message to Mr Miliband in person, urging editors at Ekho Moskvy radio station to invite him to a studio interview with the Foreign Secretary yesterday, but they refused. “They were afraid. Miliband would have been afraid. I would have had many questions,” he said. |
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