MOSCOW - Allegations that British intelligence had a hand in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko are baseless and orchestrated by the Kremlin, a leading Litvinenko associate told Russian radio on Thursday.
Andrei Lugovoy, the man Britain wants to put on trial for Litvinenko’s poisoning, said he believes British secret services and Boris Berezovsky, a wealthy Kremlin opponent now living in Britain, were involved in Litvinenko’s murder.
“Andrei Lugovoy’s statement is, in essence, a Kremlin statement,” Berezovsky, a multi-millionaire businessman who was a pall bearer at Litvinenko’s funeral, told Ekho Moskvy radio station in a telephone interview.
“This statement makes everything clear, it has become obvious that the whole campaign the Kremlin is staging around Litvinenko’s murder is a campaign of state lies.”
Reuters
From: chinadaily.com.cn
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