Charges Expected in Litvinenko Case
EmailGreat Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service is expected to announce charges in the case of poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko tomorrow, according to a source close to the investigation.
That source says that, as recommended by the police, the service is expected to charge Andrei Lugovoi, and possibly also Dimitri Kovtun, in the poisoning of the former Russian spy. Early this year, the Metropolitan Police handed the results of their investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service, which under British law makes the actual decision to bring charges. Check Out Photos of the Litvinenko Investigation. The Russians have already indicated they will not extradite Lugovoi to stand trial. Lugovoi, a former Russian security service bodyguard, had tea with Litvinenko on Nov. 1, the day police believe the lethal dose of poison was administered through a hotel teapot. Lugovoi has steadfastly denied any involvement in the murder. As first reported by ABC News earlier this year, police discovered a "hot" teapot at London’s Millennium Hotel with an off-the-charts reading for Polonium-210, the radioactive material used in the killing. A senior official told ABC News that the "hot" teapot remained in use at the hotel for several weeks after Litvinenko’s death before being tested in the second week of December. The official said investigators were embarrassed at the oversight. Investigators concluded, based on forensic evidence and intelligence reports, that the murder was a "state-sponsored" assassination orchestrated by Russian security services.
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Too bad the prosecution service can’t charge Putin.
Posted by: Anona Ms. | May 21, 2007, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
Yeah, Russia won’t agree to extradite the suspects to stand trial in the UK, just like the US won’t extradite suspects to stand trial in Italy on kidnapping charges.
Remember when Bush “looked ino Putin’s soul”?
Guess he found a soulmate.
Posted by: John Q | May 22, 2007, 12:17 am 12:17 am
John Kantor is a fool :D
Posted by: Egbert Pole | May 22, 2007, 4:17 am 4:17 am
Looks to me like John Q is right on the money, while John Kantor needs to open his eyes a little more to the truth. Read more about the “war on terror” that Bush is waging, John Kantor. I think you’ll find that at every point he’s waged it, he’s messed things up.
Posted by: firebrand | May 22, 2007, 5:11 am 5:11 am
Hurray for John Q for managing to shoehorn a criticism of Bush into a news story about Russians and the British Crown Prosecution Service. Well played.
Posted by: fridge | May 22, 2007, 5:54 am 5:54 am
Now that would seem to be quite a “tempest in a teapot” wouldn’t it. Wow!
Posted by: John | May 22, 2007, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm
The Imperial Prosecution Service report was written six months ago and marked as false flag disinformation then.
Wayne Madsen Report(dot COM) /2006_11301214.php — SPECIAL REPORT. Litvinenko poisoning scandal yet another neo-con perverse display of its parallel intelligence structures.
FBI agents have been dispatched to London to investigate the Litvinenko death, even though the United States lacks jurisdiction in the case, since no Americans are involved… The FBI’s interest in the case may be to cover-up the United States as a source of the polonium-210.
… business associates of Litvinenko, Dmitri Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi (a former agent with the KGB’s 9th Directorate, which protected Russian nuclear weapons caches), who met Litvinenko at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in London, have reportedly been affected by exposure to polonium-210 and seven bartenders who worked at the bar have tested positive for contamination with polonium-210. The Itsu sushi bar in Picadilly where Litvinenko met Scaramella is now not assumed to be the location where Litvinenko was poisoned. Trace of polonium-210 were found at the restaurant but focus is on the Pine Bar at the Millenium as the scene of the poisoning.
…even more intriguing is where traces of polonium have also been detected in the case. The British embassy in Moscow and two British Airways Boeing 767s used on the Moscow-London route have tested positive for polonium-210. Kotvun and Lugovoi met the deputy British ambassador at the British embassy in Moscow prior to their trip to London and Lugovoi is claiming that someone, perhaps the British government, is now involved in trying to frame him.
If Britain’s intelligence service is involved in the plot to set up Putin by using two unsuspecting Russian businessmen, it means that the Russian-Israeli global mafia has as many links and resources inside British intelligence as it does inside the FBI and U.S. intelligence.
Pulitzer-worthy investigative reporter Wayne Madsen includes mentioning the boomerang effect of over-the-top news denial, ‘doth protest too much,’ helping to verify the news is on the trail of something true.
( WMR — Note: It is always interesting how the neo-con Mafia reacts when someone gets close to their sordid actions. Neural Gourmet (dotCOM) /2006/12/01/wayne_madsen_smuggling_bigotry = ) A web site that appears to be quite close to the fake progressive web site Democratic Underground had a fit with the exposure of the Litvinenko case}.
Posted by: sperry | May 22, 2007, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
Yawn. The whole conspiracy freaks scene has been trying to pin the whole Litvenenko affair on the Israeli Mossad or even the CIA or MI6 while deflecting blame on Putin as having been setup.
What else is new? No one’s buying it for a second sperry. Go home.
Posted by: Brian Ash | May 22, 2007, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
Tell Litvenenko there are no conspiracies.
Oh, that’s right, you can’t.
He’s dead!
Posted by: Zach | May 24, 2007, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm