President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry concluded on Thursday, prompting a row with Moscow.
Russia, which had declined to cooperate in the inquiry, described Britain’s handling of the case as opaque and biased.
Litvinenko, 43, an outspoken critic of Putin who fled Russia for Britain exactly six years to the day before he was poisoned, died after drinking green tea laced with the rare radioactive isotope at London’s Millennium Hotel.
An inquiry led by senior British judge Robert Owen found that former KGB bodyguard Andrei …read more
Source: Antigua Observer
