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| 17.11.200915:44 (GMT) | Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun and member of the Russian parliament Andrei Lugovoy spoke to radio Golos Rossii, following the last week’s ruling of the Office of Public Prosecutor of Hamburg, Germany, that charges against Kovtun, suspected of illegal dealing with radioactive substances, have been dropped. Since 2006 both men are the key suspects in the case of murder of the former Russian FSB officer and regime critic Alexander Litvinenko in London. Asked whether Kovtun is ready to leave for London and to testify on the case, he replied that he was not ready to tell this yet. He said he was thinking whether „any additional complications could arise” with his arrival. Kovtun stressed that he did not want to face provocations, such as enclosed container with substance similar to polonium, for instance. He said he did not see any sense of it. Kovtun repeated that „a various sort of provocations is possible from the people interested that the situation developed according to this sad, destructive script”. He pointed out that there were quite many such people who had connections and means „and they can undertake any action to complicate our already not so cloudless relations with Britain”.
Andrei Lugovoy noted that the British side „should show to the public and courts all those materials which at them are collected on this case”. He said that any scientist knew the fact that polonium is very easily transferable from one object to another. „However, it is impossible to identify (that was what the British had counted upon) who exactly left the traces first. There are no fingerprints. This was the basis of the provocation”. Lugovoy added that in those documents which were sent by the British side to Russia, there was one specified motive: „the FSB and Putin have ordered me to destroy Litvinenko because he was criticizing the FSB and Putin”. Lugovoy stated that, in his opinion, there were three basic versions: relation of secret services, [Russian businessman Boris] Berezovsky and the so-called Russian mafia in Spain to the murder. The forth version, is an accident in Litvinenko's illegal operation with radioactive substances, Lugovoy maintained.
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