Aleksandr Litvinenko

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Sirpa, oletko sinä jumalauta tosissasi näiden juttujesi kanssa?

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Etten sanoisi kuolemanvakavissani. Katso nyt kuvaa itse - huulet on peitetty huulipunalla, ja valitettavasti tulin lisänneeksi tuon jatko-osan tekstiini, kun en voinut kuvitella, että olet niin pikavauhtia taas kiinnostunut ajatuksieni arvioinnista, että ehditkin jossakin välissä taas repostelemaan tuotoksiani sen sijaan, että hankkisit omia. Mutta voit tutustua nyt myös kuvan alaosassa olevaan jatko-osaan.

Pyydän moderointia ystävällisesti huomioimaan tarkemmin ne kirjoittajat, joiden ainoa tarve toistuvasti on toisten nimimerkkien henkilökohtainen arvostelu edellä tapahtuneella tavalla, joiden viestien oikea osoite olisi lautamiesosiossa.

Ok, ok - voihan se olla niinkin, että tuo huulipuna on vain lisätty tuohon Wikisivun kuvaan.
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Huh, huh - nyt vasta itsekin luin tuon Litvinenkon Wikipedia-sivun. Onpa siellä erikoista tarinaa, ja vielä pahempaa kun ajatellaan, että minkä tason tietotoimistokaveri on vuotanut julkisuuteen tuollaisia asioita.
Allegations concerning Romano Prodi

Main article: Italian Mitrokhin Commission

According to Litvinenko, FSB deputy chief, General Anatoly Trofimov said to him "Don’t go to Italy, there are many KGB agents among the politicians. Romano Prodi is our man there",[69][70] meaning Romano Prodi, the Italian centre-left leader, former Prime Minister of Italy and former President of the European Commission. The conversation with Trofimov took place in 2000, after the Prodi-KGB scandal broke out in October 1999 due to information about Prodi provided by Vasili Mitrokhin.[20]

In April 2006, a British Member of the European Parliament for London, Gerard Batten of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) demanded an inquiry into the allegations.[69][70] According to Brussels-based newspaper, the EU Reporter on 3 April 2006, "another high-level source, a former KGB operative in London, has confirmed the story".[71] On 26 April 2006, Batten repeated his call for a parliamentary inquiry, revealing that "former, senior members of the KGB are willing to testify in such an investigation, under the right conditions." He added, "It is not acceptable that this situation is unresolved, given the importance of Russia's relations with the European Union."[72] On 22 January 2007, the BBC and ITV News released documents and video footage, from February 2006, in which Litvinenko repeated his statements about Prodi.[73][74]

A report by the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom from May 2007 noted that Trofimov was never the head of the FSB, which did not oversee intelligence operations, had never worked in the intelligence directorate of the KGB or its successor the SVR, nor had he worked in the counterintelligence department of the intelligence services, nor had he ever worked in Italy, making it difficult to understand how Trofimov would have had knowledge about such a recruitment. Henry Plater-Zyberk, the co-author of the report suggested that Trofimov was "conveniently dead", so "could neither confirm nor deny the story", and noted Litvinenko's history of making accusations without evidence to back them up.[8]
Cooperation with Spanish authorities

Shortly before his death Litvinenko tipped off Spanish authorities on several organised crime bosses with links to Spain. During a meeting in May 2006 he allegedly provided security officials with information on the locations, roles, and activities of several "Russian" mafia figures with ties to Spain, including Izguilov, Zahkar Kalashov, and Tariel Oniani.[75]
In an article written by Litvinenko in July 2006, and published online on Zakayev's Chechenpress website, he claimed that Vladimir Putin is a paedophile.[79] Litvinenko also claimed that Anatoly Trofimov and Artyom Borovik knew of the alleged paedophilia.[8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

Juu, justiinsa ja EU:ssa oli KGB:n mies komission johdossa (Romano Prodi), mutta kenen väitetään Suomessa vieneen meidät EU:n? Arvatkaapa? No, tiedättekö mitä Wiki hänestä juoruaa? Näin:
Entisen suurlähettilään Alpo Rusin Vasemmalta ohi -kirjan mukaan Lipposen ja DDR:n Stasin väliset kontaktit alkoivat vuonna 1969 ja Lipponen vuoti vuosina 1969–1972 Länsi-Saksan sosialidemokraattien asioita DDR:n tiedustelulinjan diplomaateille.[42] Kirjan mukaan Lipposen Stasi-peitenimi oli Mungo ja hänen koodi oli XV/326/71.[43] Lipponen on myöntänyt olleensa DDR:n tiedustelupalvelun Stasin manipuloinnin kohteena 1970-luvulla.[44] Entisen taistolaisen Ilkka Kylävaaran Taistolaisuuden mustan kirjan mukaan Lipponen on Tiitisen listalla.[45] Alpo Rusin mukaan Lipposella oli peitenimi, koodi ja avattu operaatio myös Neuvostoliiton KGB:ssä.[42]

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Lipponen
Ja mikä mielenkiintoisinta Lipponen neuvotteli Irakin sodan aloittamisen Bushin kanssa, ja Litvinenkon lähin mies teki bisnestä taas Bushin veljen kanssa. Kyllä maailma on pieni.
In recent years, Berezovsky has done business with Neil Bush, the younger brother of the U.S. President George W. Bush. Berezovsky has been an investor in Bush's Ignite! Learning, an educational software corporation, since at least 2003. In 2005, Neil Bush met with Berezovsky in Latvia, causing tension with Russia due to Berezovsky's fugitive status.[147] Neil Bush has also been seen in Berezovsky's box at the Emirates Stadium, the home of British football club Arsenal F.C., for a game.[148] There has been speculation that the relationship may cause tension in Russo-American bilateral relations.[149]

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Ja Jukosin öljyrahat makasi pesukoneessa jättimittavin korruptiosotkuin Aurinkorannikolla, winclubeja pyöriteltiin, lapsia katoili, ja kun käry kävi, niin - joey, ymmärräthän - että miten kuolemanvakava juttu tämä on: näistä kuvioista paettiin sitten Suomeen turvaan.

Meni nyt politiikkaosion puolelle, mutta kyseessähän olikin KGB:n agentin murha...

Juu, niinpä - ja tappavista, säteilevistä aineista kirjoitellaankin viereisessä ketjussa - ihan joka poika kun ei tuota polonium-myrkkyäkään pysty hankkimaan.

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Muuten nimessä on kirjoitusvirhe (kaksikin) - se kirjoitetaan x:llä, Alexander. Jos on kirjoitusvirheitä, niin googletus ei välttämättä onnistu, varsinkaan jossakin hankalassa tapauksessa.

Huomasin tuon ongelman, kun 2007 koitin googlata Madeleinen katoamistutkimusten etenemistä huonolla menestyksellä, mutta sitten huomasin, että toistuvasti suomeksi kirjoitettiin silloisen tutkinnanjohtajan nimi väärin, ja kun sain tuon kirjoitusvirheen kiinni, niin johan tietoa aukesi.
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Aamulehti kirjoittaa:
http://www.aamulehti.fi/Ulkomaat/119495 ... emmin.html


Ex-vakooja Litvinenkon murhan selvittely jatkuu: Yritettiin myrkyttää jo aiemmin?

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Aleksandr Litvinenkon kuolemaa alettiin tiistaina tutkia uudelleen. Litvinenkon leski Marina ja pariskunnan poika Anatoli oikeustalolla Lontoossa.


Ulkomaat | 27.1.2015 | 17:48 | Päivitetty 17:50
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Entinen venäläisvakooja Aleksandr Litvinenko yritettiin mahdollisesti myrkyttää jo kaksi viikkoa ennen hänen kuolemaansa johtanutta myrkyttämistä. Tutkijat ovat löytäneet jäänteitä radioaktiivisesta poloniumista myös toisesta paikasta, jossa Litvinenko tapasi epäillyt myrkyttäjät aiemmin.

Entinen KGB-agentti kuoli vuonna 2006 juotuaan poloniumilla myrkytettyä teetä. Hän kuoli muutama viikko sen jälkeen, kun oli juonut myrkkyä. Litvinenko syytti kuolinvuoteellaan Venäjän presidenttiä Vladimir Putinia murhansa järjestämisestä.

Litvinenkon kuolemasta aloitettiin tänään kauan odotettu uusi tutkinta. Kuulemisten on arvioitu kestävän oikeudessä pari kuukautta. Monet kuulemisista tehdään suljetuin ovin, koska todistamassa on useita salaisen palvelun työntekijöitä.

Tutkimuksia johtaa tuomari Robert Owen, ja hän käyttää tiedustelutietoja sisältäviä asiakirjoja. Owen oli kuolemansyyntutkija Litvinenkon kuoleman aiemmassa tutkinnassa. Owen uskoo, että hänellä on näyttöä Venäjän valtion syyllisyydestä murhaan.

Yhdysvaltain turvallisuusvirasto NSA antoi Isolle-Britannialle eri lähteiden mukaan pitävät todisteet Litvinenkon murhaan syyllistyneistä. Daily Telegraph -lehden mukaan virasto sai haltuunsa viestejä, jotka osoittavat kiistattomasti että Venäjä on salamurhan takana.

Iso-Britannia syyttää Litvinenkon murhasta kahta entistä KGB:n vakoojaa, mutta Venäjä kiistää asian ja kieltäytyy luovuttamasta heitä.

Litvinenko selvitti epävirallisesti toimittaja Anna Politkovskajan murhaa ennen omaa kuolemaansa. Entinen KGB-eversti ja myöhemmin FSB:n everstiluutnantti loikkasi Isoon-Britanniaan vuonna 2000. Hän sai maasta poliittisen turvapaikan ja myöhemmin myös kansalaisuuden.

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http://yle.fi/uutiset/patologi_litvinen ... en/7766408
Ulkomaat 28.1.2015 klo 15:44

Patologi: Litvinenkon ruumiinavaus oli hengenvaarallinen

Entisen venäläisvakoilijan ruumis oli niin myrkyllinen, että sen saattoi tutkia vain erikoisvarusteissa, kertoo patologi Litvinenkon kuoleman uusissa tutkimuksissa.

Lontoossa myrkkyyn kuolleen entisen venäläisvakoilijan Aleksandr Litvinenkon ruumis oli niin radioaktiivinen, että hänen ruumiinavauksensa oli yksi läntisen maailman kaikkien aikojen vaarallisimmista, sanoo patologi Nathaniel Cary.

Litvinenko kuoli poloniummyrkytykseen marraskuussa 2006. Hänen ruumiinsa oli niin vaarallinen, että se oli jätettävä sairaalasänkyyn kahdeksi päiväksi ennen siirtämistä, sanoi Cary, kun häntä kuultiin Litvinenko kuoleman uusissa tutkimuksissa.

Cary kertoi, että ruumiinavauksessa hän ja hänen työtoverinsa tarvitsivat muun muassa erityiset suojahuput, joihin hengitysilma pumpattiin filtterin kautta.

Brittihallitus ei halunnut uutta tutkintaa

Litvinenko, entinen tiedusteluagentti, mutta sittemmin presidentti Vladimir Putinin ankara arvostelija, sairastui oltuaan kahden venäläismiehen kanssa teellä lontoolaisessa hotellissa. Kolme viikkoa myöhemmin hän kuoli.

Dmirti Kovtunia ja Andrei Lugovoita etsitään edelleen murhasta epäiltynä. Venäjä on kieltäytynyt luovuttamasta heitä, ja Lugovoin mukaan todisteet heitä vastaan ovat hölynpölyä.

– Sellaisia ei voi olla olemassakaan, koska Venäjällä ei ollut asian kanssa mitään tekemistä. Jos sellaisia on esitetty, ne ovat väärennöksiä, Lugovoi sanoi uutistoimisto AP:lle toimistostaan Venäjän parlamentista.

Jos todisteita on esitetty, ne ovat väärennöksiä.
– Murhasta epäilty Andrei Lugovoi

Hän sanoi myös epäilevänsä, että uusi tutkimus on yritys piilottaa Britannian tiedustelupalvelun MI6:n mahdollinen osuus Litvinenkon kuolemassa.

Britannian hallitus päätti viime kesänä, että kuolema tutkitaan uudelleen. Vielä marraskuussa oli päätetty, ettei ensimmäisen tutkimuksen tuloksia voinut julkaista, koska ne olivat liian arkaluontoisia Britannian turvallisuudelle. Korkein oikeus kuitenkin kehotti hallitusta harkitsemaan asiaa uudelleen.
Niin venäläistä käyttää myrkyttämiseen juuri poloniumia. Lainaus Wikipediasta poloniumista;
Valmistus

Polonium-210:a valmistetaan pommittamalla vismutti-209:a neutroneilla ydinreaktorissa. Sitä valmistetaan vain 100 grammaa vuosittain, pääasiassa Venäjällä.

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Raportti valmis mutta julkistamista saadaan vielä vähän odottaa. Sehän tässä se uutinen juuri nyt on. Alla lisäksi jonkinlaista yhteenvetoa tapahtuneesta IL:n kirjeenvaihtajan suomentamana.

Litvinenko-tutkinta valmis - tilasiko Venäjän valtio murhan?
Tiistai 19.1.2016

Britannian pääministeri saa Aleksandr Litvinenkon murharaportin tänään luettavakseen.

KGB:n ja FSB:n entinen vakooja, sittemmin presidentti Vladimir Putinin kiivas arvostelija Aleksandr Litvinenko murhattiin radioaktiivisella poloniumilla Lontoossa syksyllä 2006. Litvinenko oli tutkinut Moskovan vuoden 1999 kerrostaloräjähdyksiä ja esittänyt kirjassaan, että yli 300 henkeä vaatineet räjäytykset Venäjällä olivat todellisuudessa FSB:n järjestämiä ja että niillä oikeutettiin sotatoimet Tshetsheniassa.

Litvinenko sai myrkyllistä poloniumia elimistöönsä juotuaan teetä kahden venäläisagentin kanssa lontoolaisessa hotellissa. Hän syytti kuolinvuoteellaan lontoolaissairaalassa murhastaan suoraan presidentti Putinia.

Litvinenkon murhatutkinta on nyt valmistunut Britanniassa. Pääministeri David Cameron saa raportin luettavakseen tänään, ja se julkaistaan torstaina.

Litvinenko oli saanut Britannian kansalaisuuden. Epäilyn mukaan hänet salamurhattiin ja murhan tilaajana oli mahdollisesti vieras valtio. Kuolemansa aikaan Litvinenko työskenteli Britannian salaisen palvelun MI6:n konsulttina.

"Venäjä halveksii lakia"

Britannian hallitus olettaa, että tuomari Robert Owen toteaa ainakin ex-vakoojat Dmitri Kovtunin ja Andrei Lugovoin syyllisiksi murhaan. Litvinenko tapasi juuri heidät Millennium-hotellissa.

The Guardian -lehden mukaan monet uskovat Owenin menevän tätä pidemmälle ja toteavan Venäjän valtion olevan vastuussa Litvinenkon kuolemasta. Sitä, tilasiko Putin murhan, on kuitenkin vaikeampi todistaa.

Brittiläiset diplomaatit ovat jo vedonneet Cameroniin, jotta tämä ei asettaisi Venäjälle uusia talouspakotteita, mikäli Venäjä katsotaan syylliseksi. Diplomaattien näkemyksen mukaan mailla on yhteiset intressit Syyrian sisällissodan lopettamisessa ja muissa asioissa, jotka menevät Litvinenko-tapauksen edelle.

Liberaalidemokraattien puheenjohtaja Tim Farron sen sijaan vaatii matkustuskieltoa syyllisiksi todetuille.

- Sillä että he myrkyttävät omansa Britannian maaperällä, Venäjän hallitus halveksii täysin sekä Britannian lakia että kansainvälistä lakia, Farron sanoi.

Harvinaista polonium-210-isotooppia, jolla Litvinenko myrkytettiin on saatavilla ainoastaan Venäjän ydinlaitoksissa. Syyttäjille esitettiinkin, että Litvinenkon murha oli valtion toteuttama terroriteko, jollaista ei ole ennen nähty.

Vladimir Putin on torjunut Britannian vaatimukset Kovtunin ja Lugovoin karkottamisesta Venäjältä Britanniaan. Putin on todennut Britannian pyynnön olevan "aivotonta" kolonialistista ajattelutapaa.

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Tiedän kuka oli Litvinenkon murhan takana, mutten uskalla sitä tässä kertoa....voisin kokea
saman kohtalon.
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Hämmästyttävää, ettei tässä keskustelussa ole mainittu laatulehti Guardianin Litvinenko kirjoituksia?


Okei, eihän ne suomeksi ole. Mutta kait suurin osa kuitenkin englantia osaa?

The Millennium hotel is an unusual spot for a murder. It overlooks Grosvenor Square, and is practically next door to the heavily guarded US embassy, where, it is rumoured, the CIA has its station on the fourth floor. A statue of Franklin D Roosevelt – wearing a large cape and holding a stick – dominates the north side of the square. In 2011 another statue would appear: that of the late US president Ronald Reagan. An inscription hails Reagan’s contribution to world history and his “determined intervention to end the cold war”. A friendly tribute from Mikhail Gorbachev reads: “With President Reagan, we travelled the world from confrontation to cooperation.”

The quotes would seem mordantly ironic in the light of events that took place just around the corner, and amid Vladimir Putin’s apparent attempt to turn the clock back to 1982, when the former KGB boss Yuri Andropov – the secret policeman’s secret policeman – was in charge of a doomed empire known as the Soviet Union. Next to the inscriptions is a sandy-coloured chunk of masonry. It is a piece of the Berlin Wall, retrieved from the east side. Reagan, the monument says, defeated communism. This was an enduring triumph for the west, democratic values, and for free societies everywhere.

Five hundred metres away is Grosvenor Street. It was here, in mid-October 2006, that two Russian assassins had tried to murder someone, unsuccessfully. The hitmen were Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun. Their target was Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer in Russia’s FSB spy agency. Litvinenko had fled Moscow in 2000. In exile in Britain he had become Putin’s most ebullient and needling critic. He was a writer and journalist. And – from 2003 onwards – a British agent, employed by MI6 as an expert on Russian organised crime.

Latterly, Litvinenko had been supplying Her Majesty’s spooks and their Spanish counterparts with hair-raising information about the Russian mafia in Spain. The mafia had extensive contacts with senior Russian politicians. The trail apparently led to the president’s office, and dated back to the 1990s when Putin, then aide to St Petersburg’s mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, worked closely with gangsters. In a week or so, Litvinenko was to testify before a Spanish prosecutor. Hence, it appeared, the Kremlin’s frantic efforts to kill him.

The men from Moscow were carrying what Kovtun confessed to a friend was “a very expensive poison”. About its properties he knew little. The poison was polonium-210, a rare radioactive isotope, tiny, invisible, undetectable. Ingested, it was fatal. The polonium had originated at a nuclear reactor in the Urals and a production line in the Russian town of Sarov. A secret FSB laboratory, the agency’s “research institute”, then converted it into a dinkily portable weapon.

Lugovoi and Kovtun, however, were rubbish assassins. The quality of Moscow’s hired killers had slipped since the glory days of the KGB. Their first attempt, in a Grosvenor Street boardroom, had not worked. They had lured Litvinenko to a business meeting, where – the radiation stain later showed – they had tipped polonium into his cup or glass. But Litvinenko did not touch his drink. As of 1 November 2006, he was stubbornly alive.

Like most upmarket London hotels, the Millennium has CCTV. Its multiplex system can run up to 48 cameras; that day, 41 of them were operational. The cameras work on a time-lapse system. They take an image every two seconds; the video is retained for 31 days. This footage has a jerky quality, a little like the early days of cinema – images jump; people appear and vanish; life ebbs and flows. And yet it is an honest record. A time stamp – days, hours, minutes – fixes everything. The stills offer a miraculous time machine, a journey into verisimilitude.

Even modern CCTV has its limitations. Some parts of the Millennium were not covered by it – as Lugovoi, an expert in surveillance, and a former Kremlin bodyguard, would have noticed. One camera was fixed above the reception desk. Its footage shows the check-in counter; a bank of three computer screens; uniformed hotel staff. In the left of the picture is a part view of the foyer. There are two white leather sofas and a chair. Another camera – you wouldn’t notice it, unless you were looking – records the steps leading up to the lavatories.

The hotel has two ground-floor bars accessed from the foyer. There is a large restaurant and cafe. And the smaller Pine Bar immediately on the left as you enter through a revolving door from the street. The bar is a cosy wood-panelled affair. Three bay windows look out onto the square. In CCTV terms, the Pine Bar is a security black hole. It has no cameras; its guests are invisible.

On the evening of 31 October, camera 14 recorded this: at 20:04 a man dressed in a black leather jacket and mustard yellow jumper approaches the front desk. On either side of him are two young women. They have long, groomed blonde hair: his daughters. Another figure wanders up from the sofas. He is a strikingly tall, chunky-looking bloke wearing a padded black jacket and what resembles a hand-knitted Harry Potter scarf. The scarf is red and blue – the colours of Moscow’s CSKA football club

The video captures the moment the Lugovois checked in – on this, his third frantic trip to London in three weeks, Lugovoi arrived with his entire family. He came from Moscow with his wife Svetlana, daughter Galina, eight-year-old son Igor, and friend Vyacheslav Sokolenko – the guy with the scarf. At the hotel, Lugovoi met his other daughter Tatiana. She had arrived from Moscow a day earlier with her boyfriend Maxim Bejak. The family party was due to watch CSKA Moscow play Arsenal in the Champions League the following evening. Like Lugovoi, Sokolenko was ex-KGB. But Sokolenko was not, British detectives would conclude, a murderer.

CCTV shows Kovtun arriving at the Millennium at 08.32 the next day – a diminutive figure carrying a black bag over one shoulder. The events of the next few hours were to become infamous – with Litvinenko the fated victim, the Russian state an avenging god, the media a sort of overexcited Greek chorus. What actually took place was a piece of improvisation that might easily have misfired. Lugovoi and Kovtun had decided to lure Litvinenko to a further meeting. But the evidence suggests that they had still not figured out how exactly they were going to kill him.

Litvinenko had first met Lugovoi in Russia in the 1990s. Both were members of the oligarch Boris Berezovsky’s entourage. Later, while living in exile in London, Berezovsky became Litvinenko’s mercurial patron. In 2005, Lugovoi recontacted Litvinenko and suggested they work together, advising western firms wanting to invest in Russia. At 11.41am, Lugovoi called Litvinenko on his mobile. He suggested a meeting. Why didn’t Litvinenko join him later that day at the Millennium? Litvinenko said yes; the plot was on.

Scotland Yard would later precisely fix Litvinenko’s movements on the afternoon of 1 November: a bus from his home in Muswell Hill in north London; the tube to Piccadilly Circus; a 3pm lunch with his Italian associate Mario Scaramella in the Itsu sushi restaurant in Piccadilly. In between, he fielded several calls from Lugovoi, who was becoming increasingly importunate. Lugovoi called Litvinenko again at 3.40pm. He told Litvinenko to “hurry up”. He had, he said, to leave imminently to watch the football.

Lugovoi would tell British detectives that he arrived at the Millennium at 4pm. The CCTV shows that he was lying: half an hour earlier, at 3.32pm, Lugovoi appears at the front desk and asks for directions to the gents. Another camera, number four, records him walking up the stairs from the foyer. The image is striking. Lugovoi seems preoccupied. He is unusually pale, grim, grey-visaged. His left hand is concealed in a jacket pocket. Two minutes later, he emerges. The camera offers an unflattering close-up of his bald spot.

Lugovoi walking up the stairs from the Millennium hotel foyer. The image is striking. ‘Lugovoi seems preoccupied. He’s unusually pale, grim, grey visaged. His left hand is concealed in a jacket pocket.’

Then, at 3.45pm, Kovtun repeats the same procedure, asking for directions, vanishing into the men’s toilets, reappearing three minutes later. He is a slight figure. What were the pair doing there? Washing their hands, having set the polonium trap? Or preparing the crime, a heinous one, in the sanctuary of one of the cubicles?

Tests were to show massive alpha radiation contamination in the second cubicle on the left – 2,600 counts per second on the door, 200 on the flush handle. Further sources of polonium were found on and below the gents’ hand-dryer, at over 5,000 counts per second. There was what scientists called “full-scale deflection” – readings so high they were off the scale.

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The former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was probably murdered on the personal orders of Vladimir Putin, the UK public inquiry into his death has found.

Litvinenko, who died from radioactive poisoning in a London hospital in November 2006, was killed by two Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, the inquiry report said. There was a “strong probability” they were acting on behalf of the Russian FSB secret service, the report added.


Sir Robert Owen, the inquiry chair, said that taken as a whole the open evidence that had been heard in court amounted to a “strong circumstantial case” that the Russian state was behind the assassination.

But when he took into account all the evidence available to him, including a “considerable quantity” of secret intelligence that was not aired in open court, he found “that the FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by [Nikolai] Patrushev [head of the security service in 2006] and also by President Putin”.

Marina Litvinenko, Alexander’s widow, welcomed the report’s “damning finding” and called for the UK to impose sanctions on Russia, in a statement read outside the Royal Courts of Justice, where the inquiry took place. But she claimed she had been given indications that the UK would do nothing.

She added: “I’m also calling for the imposing of targeted economic sanctions and travel bans against named individuals ... including Mr Putin. I received a letter last night from the home secretary promising action ... [but] it [signalled] that the prime minister would do nothing in the face of the damaging findings of Sir Robert Owen.”

At the morning lobby briefing, Downing Street said the findings were “extremely disturbing” but added that the government would have to weigh up any further actions in light of the need to work with Russia on tackling Isis.

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Re: Aleksandr Litvinenko

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It was a warm autumn day when the two Russian visitors arrived in Grosvenor Street, central London. Their names were Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun; the date was 16 October 2006. They had arrived that morning from Moscow carrying something that British customs failed to detect. Not drugs or large sums of cash, but something so otherworldly, it had never been seen before in the UK.

The substance was polonium, a highly radioactive isotope. It is probably the most toxic poison known to man when swallowed or inhaled – more than 100bn times more deadly than hydrogen cyanide. It had come from a Russian nuclear reactor. The job of Lugovoi and Kovtun was to deploy it. They had come to poison Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident, MI6 employee and Kremlin critic. The visiting killers had no personal grudge against their target. They had been sent by Russia’s FSB spy agency, in an operation likely to have been approved by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.

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Scotland Yard has never established how the assassins transported the polonium. The amounts were very small and easy to disguise. There are several possibilities: a container with the poison administered by a pipette-style dropper. Or an aerosol-like spray. Even a modified fountain pen would do the trick. Within its container, the polonium was safe. Out of it, it was highly dangerous. Ingest it, and you were dead.

Lugovoi and Kovtun, it would become apparent, had no idea what they were carrying. Their behaviour in Britain was idiotic, verging on suicidal. Nobody in Moscow appears to have told them Po-210 had intensely radioactive properties. Or that it left a trace – placing them in specific locations and indicating, via telltale alpha-radiation markings, who sat where. It was possible to identify anything and everything these clueless assassins touched.

That morning – at 11.49 – Lugovoi called Litvinenko from Gatwick airport to confirm their meeting that afternoon at the intelligence firm Erinys in Grosvenor Street. Litvinenko thought this was a routine meeting. Lugovoi had offered himself as Litvinenko’s business partner, giving advice to western firms seeking to invest in Russia.

The killers travelled by train to central London. They checked into the Best Western hotel on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the heart of Soho. The first rule of spycraft is not to draw attention to yourself. But from the moment they stepped on to UK soil, Lugovoi and Kovtun attracted attention. It wasn’t just that they were assassins: they looked like assassins, a couple of stage villains from KGB casting.

When the pair swapped their casual clothes for “business” attire, their appearance prompted hotel staff to chuckle. Kovtun was wearing a silvery metallic polyester-type suit and Lugovoi was kitted out in checks. They had matched their shiny outfits with colourful shirts and ties. They wore chunky jewellery.

According to hotel manager Goran Krgo, the two men resembled stereotypical eastern European gangsters. “The colours didn’t match, the suits were either too big or too small. They just didn’t look like people who are used to wearing suits. They looked like – I think the expression is: like a donkey with a saddle.”

At 3pm, Litvinenko met Lugovoi and Kovtun in Grosvenor Street. Waiting for them was Tim Reilly, the Russian-speaking head of Erinys; he shook their hands and led them into the boardroom.

The meeting began in typically English style, with talk of the sunny weather. Then Lugovoi steered the conversation round to tea. He suggested they all drink some, joking that the English had cups of tea all the time. Reilly declined and told them he had just drunk water from the cooler. Lugovoi was weirdly persistent.

“They kept on saying to me – don’t you want any [tea], won’t you have any?” Reilly recalled.

Heaving with radioactive contamination


Reilly served cups of tea to his three guests. He sat to the right of Litvinenko, who was at the head of the table with his back facing the bay window; immediately across the table from Reilly was Lugovoi. Kovtun sat to Lugovoi’s left. He said nothing. After making tea, Reilly – fortuitously for the would-be assassins – went to the loo.

We don’t know how the polonium was deployed. The forensic evidence suggests that either Lugovoi or Kovtun slipped it into Litvinenko’s tea. For the next 30 minutes, the tea sat in front of him, a little to his left – an invisible nuclear murder weapon primed to go off. Lugovoi and Kovtun must have been barely listening to the conversation: for them, the only question was, would Litvinenko drink?

Litvinenko didn’t drink. One can only imagine what must have been going through Lugovoi’s and Kovtun’s minds when the meeting broke up, his drink untouched.

When nuclear scientists examined the Erinys table, they found that, in Reilly’s damning words, it was “heaving” with radioactive contamination. It appeared there had been substantial spillage. Reilly wondered whether he, too, had been an intended target. One spot in front of where Litvinenko had been sitting showed exceptionally high alpha-radiation readings of more than 10,000 counts a second. Scientists later identified the scene as one of “primary contamination”. That meant the radiation could only have come from deployed polonium. Other parts of the baize had readings of 2,300 counts a second. One chair – where either Lugovoi or Kovtun had been sitting – registered at 7,000 counts a second.

The Russians would later claim that it was Litvinenko who had poisoned them, during this, their first significant encounter in Mayfair. All subsequent traces, they said, could be explained by this initial radioactive contact. It was a version they would repeat to Russian state media, which transmitted it as true.

This version was easily disproved when Scotland Yard reconstructed Litvinenko’s journey from his home to Green Park using his Oyster card. He had travelled on the 43 bus, getting on at Friern Barnet, then taking the tube into central London from Highgate station. The bus – vehicle registration LR02 BCX – was found and tested for contamination. There wasn’t any.

Lugovoi and Kovtun, by contrast, left a lurid nuclear stain wherever they went, including their hotel rooms, well before their first meeting with Litvinenko. After leaving Erinys, Litvinenko took the pair to his favourite branch of Itsu in Piccadilly Circus, close to the Ritz. They sat downstairs. Polonium was found here, too. The visitors took their leave of Litvinenko.

A ghostly glow on the shisha pipe

Afterwards, Lugovoi claimed that he and Kovtun strolled around Soho for an hour and a half. They dropped in to a bar, Dar Marrakesh in the Trocadero centre, where Lugovoi smoked a £9 shisa pipe on the terrace. Scotland Yard later retrieved the pipe. It was easy to spot: the handle gave off a ghostly alpha-radiation glow.

Back at home in Muswell Hill, Litvinenko felt mildly unwell. He threw up, just once. His vomiting spasm was due to exposure to radiation – just from being near the poison. Litvinenko thought little of this episode. He had unwittingly survived his first encounter with polonium.

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At 1am, the would-be killers returned to the Best Western hotel. At some point that day or the next, Lugovoi handled polonium in the privacy of his room, 107. He appears to have transferred it here from one container to another. And to have disposed of it down the bathroom sink. We know this because Lugovoi’s plughole showed massive alpha-radiation readings of 1,500 counts a second. There were lower readings elsewhere in the bathroom, and in the bedroom next door. Kovtun’s room, 306, was also heavily contaminated.

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Tass: Litvinenkon murhasta epäilty venäläinen liike­mies kuoli
Dmitri Kovtunin kerrotaan kuolleen koronaviruksen aiheuttamaan tautiin.

ENTISEN venäläisvakoojan Aleksandr Litvinenkon murhasta epäilty Dmitri Kovtun on kuollut koronaviruksen aiheuttamaan tautiin moskovalaisessa sairaalassa, Reuters uutisoi venäläisen uutistoimisto Tassin tietojen pohjalta.
Litvinenko sairastui tavattuaan Kovtunin ja toisen epäillyn Andrei Lugovoin lontoolaisessa Millenium-hotellissa marraskuussa 2006. Litvinenko joutui sairaalaan, jossa hänestä löytyi suuria pitoisuuksia radioaktiivista poloniumia. Litvinenko kuoli 23. marraskuuta 2006.
Myöhemmin brittitutkijat löysivät jälkiä poloniumista ympäri Lontoota paikoista, joissa Lugovoi ja Kovtun olivat käyneet.
Miehet kiistivät osallisuutensa myrkytykseen.

LITVINENKO oli entinen KGB-upseeri, josta tuli Venäjän presidentin Vladimir Putinin kriitikko. Litvinenko lähti Britanniaan vuonna 2000 ja sai maan kansalaisuuden vuonna 2006. Hän syytti Putinia kuolemastaan kuolinvuoteellaan. Kreml on kiistänyt Putinin määränneen myrkytyksen.

BRITTITUOMARI totesi tutkinnan päätteeksi vuonna 2016, että Litvinenkon murha oli Venäjän turvallisuuspalvelu FSB:n operaatio, jonka hyväksyi todennäköisesti FSB:n silloinen johtaja Nikolai Patrushev ja itse Putin.
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Entisen venäläisvakoojan Aleksandr Litvinenkon murhasta epäilty Dmitri Kovtun on kuollut. KUVA: REUTERS
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