Chaika accused Britain of the murders of Litvinenko and Berezovsky
Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika accused British intelligence services of murdering ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He stated this today in the Federation Council.
“The UK did not provide the Russian side with the case materials, but provided them to our colleagues in Germany. Their investigation shows that polonium appeared in London before the arrival of Lugovoy and Kovtun. Its greatest concentration was found in Berezovsky’s office, where Kovtun and Lukashenko ended up, contrary to their plans, as a result of persistent invitations from Boris Abramovich,” Chaika said.
He believes that although fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky played a key role in this provocation, he was not the author of the script.
“For all his criminal talents, Berezovsky could not get hold of polonium - it’s not his level. And he also could not artificially create such a volume of so-called evidence that British investigators collected. There is no doubt that Boris Berezovsky acted under the control of specialists from Great Britain and together with them. For which later, when he decided to return to his homeland, he paid with his life. The intelligence services could not allow the holder of secrets about an act of nuclear terrorism to leave England,” said Chaika.
He said that Russian investigative authorities continue to collect data.
“We have not yet presented all the evidence. In two months we will hold a briefing on this and a number of other cases,” Chaika said.
Let us recall that former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium in the UK in 2006. The British side blamed Andrei Lugovoy (since 2016, acting as a State Duma deputy) and Dmitry Kovtun for the death of Litvinenko. Fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky died in London under unclear circumstances in 2015.
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