UK wants to try Russian (Lugovoi) for Litvinenko murder (The Guardian)

[Eugene]

UK wants to try Russian for Litvinenko murder


· Diplomatic clash with Moscow expected
· Kremlin could ask for billionaire Berezovsky in return

Ian Cobain, Julian Borger and Luke Harding in Moscow
Friday January 26, 2007
The Guardian

The British government is preparing to demand the extradition of a Russian businessman
to stand trial for the poisoning with polonium-210 of the former KGB officer Alexander
Litvinenko. Senior Whitehall officials have told the Guardian that a Scotland Yard file
on the murder which is about to be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service alleges
that there is sufficient evidence against Andrei Lugovoi for the CPS to decide whether
he should face prosecution.

The government is already bracing itself for the cooling of relations with Moscow,
which it believes will be an inevitable consequence of an extradition request. The request
could be made as early as next month and government officials are convinced the Kremlin
will demand, in return, the extradition of Boris Berezovsky, the Russian millionaire
oligarch who was granted asylum in the UK.

Mr Lugovoi, 41, a former bodyguard with the KGB, was one of several people interviewed
by detectives from Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command in Moscow last month.
The Yard is declining to comment on the case and details of the alleged evidence against
Mr Lugovoi remain unclear.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1999128,00.html

Also: Litvinenko killer 'will die of poisoning within three years' - The Independent

[MrPrax]

1. David Kelly's murder

didn't get this level of interest by the British press...

So why exactly would this boring fuck absorb the interest of the British press?

oh...warmongering

[acmavm]

2. Take their minds of their own fearless leader's bloody deeds.