'Lies from start to finish': Russian official denies any part in Litvinenko murder
Source: Guardian UK
A top Russian official implicated in the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has denied any involvement in the crime, calling the inquiry into the Russian’s death in London a “theatre of the absurd”.
Lawyers for Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, alleged that Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia’s powerful anti-drugs agency and a longtime associate of Vladimir Putin, could have ordered the hit. The inquiry’s report, which will be released on Thursday morning almost 10 years after Litvinenko died of polonium-210 poisoning in 2006, is expected to find that the Russian state carried out the assassination.
The court heard evidence that Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB agent and now a Russian MP, and Dmitry Kovtun killed Litvinenko. But the question of who exactly in the Russian government gave the order is harder to answer.
Speaking to the Guardian from the Moscow headquarters of the Russian Drugs Control Agency, Ivanov said the six-month inquiry was a “well-crafted political order”. “It’s lies from start to finish”, he said.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/20/viktor-ivanov-russian-official-denies-alexander-litvinenko-murder-claims
"I didn't kill Litvinenko--that was someone else! I killed Nemtsov."
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