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| 02.07.200707:40 (GMT) | The former officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London by radioactive polonium in November, 2006, probably, planned murder of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and had been preparing for a series of acts of terrorism, one of which " would shake all Russia and the whole world ", ex-FSB agent Vyacheslav Zharko is quoted today by the Moscow-based daily Izvestia as saying.
Vyacheslav Zharko who was reported as having arrived to the FSB with the statement that British secret service MI-6 had tried to recruit him told this in an interview to the FSB-close daily. To add to his striking version, Zharko alleged that Litvinenko had told him: "Putin will be finished soon".
In an unusual documentary film broadcast by NTV television channel in Russia last week, the man who was identified as Zharko, described how he befriended exiled billionaire tycoon and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky in the late 1990s in London, and how he eventually came to meet Litvinenko. The accusation of British espionage and recruitment of Russians comes amid continued speculation of possible official Russian involvement in Litvinenko's poisoning death. Zharko’s statements fully correspond to allegations supported by the Russian authorities’ that British secret services and Berezovsky could have had a hand in Litvinenko's death.
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