 merrie says: Russian Alexander Litvinenko [mysteriously died of polonium 210 poisoning Nov 2006] also had links with the Georgian businessman. Sources in Tbilisi have told The Times that he stayed at Mr Patarkatshvili's residence in Georgia en route to Turkey when he fled Russia to seek asylum in London in 2000. Russian prosecutors claim that Mr Litvinenko also visited Mr Patarkatsishvili as well as Mr Berezovsky in London shortly before he was poisoned. They accuse Mr Berezovsky of involvement in the murder of the former Federal Security Service (FSB) agent as part of a plot to damage President Putin's international image. From Russia with loathing for Putin It is unlikely to do much for Gordon Brown's relations with the Kremlin, which have been frosting over since Vladimir Putin refused to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the former KGB agent accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko in London. But Sir David King, who as the Government's Chief Scientist played a key role in the investigation into Litvinenko's murder, has accused the Russian president of masterminding the murder of nearly 300 of his own people in the Moscow apartment bombings in 1999, which Putin blamed on Chechen terrorists. "I can tell you that Putin was responsible for the bombings," Sir David claimed to Mandrake at the Morgan Stanley Great Bri... |
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