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this political season brought. back into this world the british authorities keep claiming and for now a russian n.p. is the main suspect in the murder plot has dramatically changed it is a test launch an investigation into the attempted murder considering everything. what's true and how will this know to keep supporting. is there any chance that both sides will finally turn to. victim the suspect himself the former security officer turned politician the best. british citizen i'm sure my k.g.b. operative alexander litvinenko died in london five years ago his death was later attributed to poisoning with rare and expensive polonium two hundred ten which made

the case a true cape em dead a story and dre little boy who was the last one to meet with him and then call before he was rushed to hospital is reduced chief suspect but the russian side treats him as a big and conducts its olympus to geisha moscow's refusal to extradite lugovoy after the killing has long soured its relations with longer. and welcome to the show the evil over think first of all i'd like to congratulate you on your reelection to the state duma you kept a seat in the parliament true we needed and will continue to work for the benefit of russian. trade. to the case you have been involved in russia with i sees as far as i understand russia has never stopped its pro bowl to look for one cold case and you have now been officially found to be a victim why did investigators announce the decision just recently five years says those events took place in london worked in the investigators uncover new evidence

. that's something i'd like to point out it's during these five years russian investigators have been quite active they questioned a large number of witnesses personally i had to testify several times a year as i understand they managed to get some new information and since we're talking about the radioactive substance called polonium two ten this to gators how to conduct some serious examinations and they must have been very complicated because apparently it was the first time law enforcement ran into such a kind of substance use obviously they got some data from these examinations at the same time they were detectives kept working of course i don't know any details of there are two that is so based on all of that is lead investigator made the decision he made. russian investigators say that the late listening. to the polonium i thought i view with the two to improper handling. one yes they allege that he was attempting to sell its. most and they say that it was exactly well

meeting with you and your pardon mr colton. that he was handling the polonium improperly even is that true we don't rule that actually it was my theory it was me tree coffin and myself who suggested that little in income may have been poisoned for improper handling of polonium you know much the same way you may have improper handling of a firearm for example natural in the course of these five years we conducted our own investigation perhaps we can truly call it in this negotiation but at least we often pondered trying to figure out what could have been the cause as well the russian investigators i don't know what theories they're looking at because they don't tell. us anything about it but what's important is that they're able to question and conduct examinations involving russian citizens in two thousand and seven when russian investigators went to london they were denied the right to question anyone except for borys it is also anyone with very soft skin did a transcript of the questioning appear later on the internet and it was called an

interview interrogation and there's also given them a budget in contrast to scotland yard who was not limited in its activities during their trip to russia and after they questioned us we were not allowed to cite any of the facts mentioned there because we sign a nondisclosure agreement that would let us know that the russian investigative committee has arrived at this new conclusion does it intend to go over to london for further investigation of what is the next step of. you probably won't believe it but the fact is that over these five years russian investigators have received only one a formal request from the british authorities their request for extradition so suddenly in their turn russian this to gators have filed more than ten requests asking their british counterparts if you conduct certain activities examinations in questioning of some witnesses unfortunately the u.k. never replied to any of their requests submitted by the russian prosecutor general's office. maybe the u.k. does not respond because it's extradition request was declined. because here's what

i have to say on the issue many countries in the world do not hand over their citizens and i do not rule out that the u.k. and the us have similar laws in fact every year russian courts hear about three kind would cases where russian citizens are accused of crimes they committed abroad upon request from abroad if they committed a crime outside russia any country in question gathers evidence and sends its going over to russia through official channels. the fact that russia's law enforcement has named you a victim in this case that it appears is actually a blessing for you you're not facing the calls here you guys if you're not. viewed as a murder suspect in russia any longer in fact i've never been regarded as a suspect i was a witness in the case anyway this is positive news for me personally as well as my lawyers and the prosecutor general's office have called on scotland yard to send all were all of the evidence or for their investigation there are many documents in

this case we have never received the results of the examination is that we will that is a positive news for you know what we have to remember about the price you had to pay for it you were exposed to radiation were significant was the damage to. it was serious enough to detect the early symptoms over radiation sickness it was a serious as that which you would believe but what you said was last treatment yes i did i had to spend about a month in a hospital that was moscow clinical hospital number six which is now part of the federal medical my logical center was an employee specialist who previously work its nuclear power stations and so on the treatment involved many intricate procedures so we had to do a long list of tests every day and samples were analyzed using some complex math formulas and thanks to prompt intervention by russian doctors the disease was in the bud. good as it would be so we don't have any symptoms and no long term effects on your health that we still know there have been no effects

except for the fact that i have to do medical checkups more often than a regular person would have to do two or three times a year if that other doctor's advice is to sell it yes sort of pretty useless fine russian investigators now say that full of you cover littering. and culture where victims in this case should be but who do they accuse of. attempted murder would be that it was well i believe it is as follows. with any crime you should look for a person who benefited the most from it i did not have any motive to kill it the man and in fact he's family think so too. so who could benefit in this case it's been. moore is very soft. for me personally he's among the prime suspects and look let's not forget that it was written in helms very soft to get political asylum in the u.k. . came up with a story about a former soviet citizen who was supposedly assassinated with a poison pen my lawyers told me about that case and they have free access to its

near quoting to the papers listen income was the only witness in the case of barry's office getting political asylum it's true i didn't invent this it's true that barry's office he was granted political asylum illegally six months before the left litvinenko without any money it's important to realize that listening to leave doff the loans provided by berezovsky and stayed together with his family in a house owned by barry soft even though there is also often says that he can encode to get an apartment the truth is that the house still belongs to barry's soft skin lynton enclosed does not deny that it is. not your initial theory was improper handling of radioactive materials is probably just a word now you're saying it was better is off scale benefited the most. from little enclosed. to accuse berezovsky of being behind this tragic event still playing

happened by accident with. some actual it's not like cars have only one theory i can give you two more possible scenarios for example according to littering call himself he was actively involved in what he said was exposing russian mafia and the murder could have been intervened. the reports did mention the name of some spaniard yes also listen in close window confirmed that he worked for the intelligence service or for the security service i'm not sure which they have subordination them to so he could not have acted on his own initiative this whole story geo political repercussions it was a huge scandal no doubt about that. i just want to police it on the timeline two thousand and seven the murder of anna politkovskaya the death of lithuanian car thousand in the conflict between south a city in georgia there was a whole chain of high profile events with the latest the which is hillary clinton's statement that the russian parliamentary election was

a legitimate also this murder could have clued into the hands of some circles or predation maybe american society. after all society but some political forces. british secret services did have played a big role in all the kawi so you don't accuse anyone they just say you had several theories but anyway the trail first leads to bear results get was very soft you could prove bill clinton and co to make weariest kinds of allegations it was berezovsky who made lytton in coal leave russia in i think it was beer is also british secret service his approach to first base just personal and that it was only a part of brightness with business partners of other. in fact we did not have any falling out there was no enmity of the prior to this event even after the death of luton income and despite the fact the various off season he was making those allegations it's very self skewes family members while in london were protected by russian border guards from security agency in moscow the contract was not canceled

until two thousand and eight so there is off skis each family that they're currently had a reason to trust me he didn't train the c.s. well badri patarkatsishvili i last talked to him but that in two thousand any of the wars which was a year and a half since the death of lynn is going to several days before his own death will set out that sociability it was there is also closest friend and partner through any and he did not believe i did it with him stayed in touch with me so personal animates he had nothing to do with it perhaps somebody would like it to be this way but that's not true says a little boy for were security officers spotlight but will be back shortly our poor break so stay with us will continue this interview in less than really. here in bygone days sleds were fighting to get around.

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welcome back to spotlight i would love and just to remind you that my guest on the show to the is and any. of that i let me quote alexander litvinenko as we go to bed she said among other things i should like you to show some courage and come to london and until your side of the story to the british courts what sort of summer let's get a lot of peers in london since litvinenko was murdered what do you intend to go there at some point yes of course there was more i would like to tell you that i signed a contract with a major british legal. firm this summer especially going to my interests in london they're now represented by british lawyers league corners scored at its first

session on mock case in october. who were there by the way revealed that they found out about the hearing by accident and when you were not notified about the hearings so if it was not for that kind students either they could as easily accuse me once again of hiding from injustice but my lawyers appearance at the coroner's court was a shock to them since no one expected me to be represented there a tall as elian we made several statements demanding that hearings be conducted in standard format we also demanded the status of a party in interest in the case so in the state the corners court is quite an interesting institution there's nothing like that in the other european countries it was the coroner's court that used to identify the cause of death before the case goes to. the coroner's court does not convict but it gives all parties involved in the opportunity to state their positions and you should certain of court documents we called for an expanded hearing into this what the british government at scotland yard and the crown prosecution service objected because they don't want the

documents in the case to be made public closed because we'd also called for a wider inquest so now we are waiting for the next hearing which will probably take place early next year in the. case has for years been the main stumbling block in russian british sport life you know that you need of a has more on this story. the last ten years have seen moscow's relations with london more of the by mutual aspinall shelagh ations and extradition disputes though it will now go case caused the russian british relations plunged to caldwell levels of the relations have recently improved. remains part of the gender of their three high profile meeting between the two countries politicians aleksandr litvinenko a former russian security officer fled russia in two thousand escaping legal charges of abusing his power at work in two thousand and one he was granted

political asylum in london where he became a journalist and a writer criticizing the kremlin spolar says in two thousand and six litvinenko fell ill the doctors established he had been poisoned by a rare and expensive radioactive matto poor between one could died three weeks later on the day he fell ill that even then commander russian businessman andrey lugovoy and me trick often british investigators can see those who were to be the chief suspect in the case and won him extradited to the u.k. russian laws does not allow for russian citizen to be extradited to other countries without a trial at home but british officials have refused to send their evidence to russian investigators the russian investigative committee has meanwhile declared lugovoy was also a victim of poisoning as he was exposed to pull on him and had to undergo serious treatment in moscow. how do you feel about the fact that many

people consider you personally love to be the main hurdle that is preventing the russian u.k. relations from improving their rights or certain extent. you know i have thought about it i find it a little strange and it's a disservice difficult to come to terms with the idea that i am now a historical. figure that he so to speak. not in the sense that i have to reform some great deed of course it is strange to be an issue that to be construed as cannot agree on my position is that the british side and using entirely to blame for that idea who. let us return to the current us call it. this isn't is better typical for the u.k. court system. said the court is to determine the cause of. the current us courts recognize the name was intact killed doesn't support your version about him and as a result of an accident. the court has yet to look into that will be hearing this

was a preliminary its objective was to determine the interested parties in the case these parties have been recognized myself mr litvinenko representatives of the u.k. government on the court's own initiative mr coughed and unless i'm mistaken there is no suggestion was made to recognize the russian government as an interested party as well i don't know that for certain i know is that the coroner's court has submitted some questions to the russian embassy which is i understand. sized the same question he says over and over whether we are him please of the. begin i have to repeat that that we were employees of the k.g.b. during the use a saw a period and then we work for the federal guard service. i pay the next question is whether if as b. blew up residential houses in moscow in one thousand nine hundred ninety provoke a war in chechnya this questions have nothing to do with the case. and in the past

couple of years you have been the owner of a private security firm right. there yes yes that's right it's a private security firm but that's just the main business and apart from that we also had stakes in a large number of other companies. let's get back to the courts the easiest way to stop. the cause of death is to study the post. as far as i know to date no one except for those who did the examination he has actually seen in the course. of the papers delivered to the coroner's court they were not in when the coroner who presided over the court but it's a question to the official from the crown prosecution service explaining that he needed to decide on the whether to hold an expanded or closed hearing it was a barrister from scotland yard stood up and requested the court to put off the hearing for two weeks because they needed together some more documents two months have passed since the court session has not taken place nor his scotland yard

provided the papers. i don't think there could be any new information as far as post-mortem papers are concerned whatever they were filled in five years ago when who can say the same information until their turn to dust up in the archives you will know exactly maybe scotland yard was not prepared for such a situation maybe they expected this first hearing which was a preliminary one take some decision. there were also reports in the video that the crown prosecution service was told in some new evidence on the case which was handed over by scotland yard if you heard anything about that evidence i don't think it's anything serious must be just the media report in the journalist must've misinterpreted the facts at the coroner's court hearing the officers of scotland yard rose up and said they needed two more weeks to hand over the remaining papers to the prosecution service would you maybe there is a certain procedure maybe it's to do something else where you can my lords doubt that there could be new documents what's more likely is that they just need to

provide more people or some type of those that they submitted along with the extradition request also heard another interesting interpretation russian investigators say you're no longer a suspect and a witness say no longer a witness but a victim yes of particulars is it possible that the british authorities move mr caused a friend of yours who. from the witnesses latest onto the list of suspects this is it possible now is that i read of such an option in the paper of the reporter from the sunday times. because they're always taking an aggressive stand it was apparently were in the same newspaper which you know if that happens i will discontinue any contact with the british side and i will not comment or in any way participate in this case why is that then that it's ok to suspect you but not ok to suspect they weren't suspecting that's all very messed up but when the truth is that there is no new evidence and i must tell you that that meeting of ours that

was in there ever ever captured by anyone. as to how many people there were and who they were because the location we used was not equipped with surveillance cameras and it's also unclear what foundation there can be for prosecutions to come up with any charges merely polonium traces in regard to that i'd like to say once again that is a substance that requires some very serious studies i don't know whether what i'm going to suggest a possible for legal reasons but i just have this idea if there are x. person russian experts in britain why not submit both these reports to some third country with a reliable expertise in nuclear materials so that they could carry out an unbiased . you just mentioned that one of the theories is that litvinenko was employed by a british secret service as. something you've always been saying there was no proof to back it up to this has been proved in the court and breaking it in that that

indeed collaborated with britain's secret services what does this make your position stronger. i think it does but first of all whenever i was seeing i was accused of lying and now it turns out that i was right so now it's the other side that's lying that's one thing or another thing is and that's something i want to emphasize that the british secret services are a very serious secret organization with strict subordination between employees and different levels and therefore no matter what lieutenant could did he could not have done it on his own initiative and finally this is going to prove all my previous statements to be true that being an undercover british agent and listening to travel to georgia that you would cross the georgian border and through the gorge would further cross border to in i think took up arms in about cari as well. ok fine. two thousand which written has charged a number of russian citizens with a spear and there were a series of spies candles. do you think that britain's obsessional scene spies

approach was triggered off the so-called polonium scandal or isn't perhaps true that russia's secret service has a soul overly active in great britain. you know the secret services are a separate room no matter what the relationship is like it's going to states they always do their work a bit i'll give you one example back in the soviet times when russia was rance with the warsaw pact states he's treme for instance that on their secret services still work against each other to wipe off that and that's why i can a true assad especially if you consider who those ten russian undercover agents arrested in the u.s. were swapped for i see it three out of four worked for m i six strange isn't it he's our operatives were arrested in the u.s. but the swap was with britain and i mean again that's the game's secret services play it's just about thank you very much for being with us and just the rumor and get it right get that wish ok well i'm getting a little goggle politician and former security and also for all of us if you want

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