The London court came to a conclusion that exists «serious probability» that the former employee of FSB Alexander Litvinenko probably was killed under the personal order of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Reports about it «Left coast» with reference to the newspaper «The Guardian».
Litvinenko died on November 23, 2006. At first physicians assumed that he was poisoned with highly toxic poison thallium, however it became clear later that the death occurred in connection with departure by radioactive polonium-210. According to the version Skotland - Yard, his Litvinenko the deputy of the State Duma from LDPR Andrey Lugovoi mixed with tea (the former colleague Litvinenko on FSB) and the businessman Dmitry Kovtun who in the past was the employee of GRU.
The British prosecutor's office demanded their extradition in 2007, however then Russia refused it. Evidences in the matter of Litvinenko were given by his widow of Marín Litvinenko, Kovtun was going to give evidences by video conference from Moscow, however subsequently he refused it. In 2013 the Investigative Committee of Russia received the status of interested party in 2013 on own initiative.
In July of The Guardian wrote that in case papers there was a witness under the pseudonym D3. He said that Kovtun told about intention to kill Litvinenko. He gave these evidences to 2006 more, however them filed only in 2010. Both Kovtun, and Lugovoi deny the participation in Litvinenko's death.
