Litvinenko Suspect Charges British Involvement
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MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian businessman whom Britain has named as a suspect in the killing of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko said Thursday that he has evidence of British special services’ involvement in the poisoning death.
“Even if (British special services) hadn’t done it itself, it was done under its control or connivance,” Andrei Lugovoi told a news conference.
Later, asked if he had evidence for the allegation, he said “I have evidence” but did not elaborate. >[?Britain last week said it had enough evidence to charge Lugovoi, who also worked for the KGB and its main successor agency the FSB, in the November killing of Litvinenko.
Litvinenko, who died of poisoning by the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210, had fled to Britain several years earlier after becoming a strong critic of the Kremlin and received British citizenship.
Mr. Lugovoi and another Russian had met in London with Litvinenko on Nov. 1, the day Litvinenko said he became ill.
