15:31, 20 November 2006

Gordievskiy: Litvinenko was poisoned under Kremlin order

Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned under a direct order from the Kremlin, Oleg Gordievskiy, former resident of Soviet special services in Great Britain and one of major deserters from the KGB, has declared.

In his words, Litvinenko was poisoned by his former friend and colleague, who had been secretly recruited by the FSB at prison, while the Italian whom Litvinenko met on that very day had nothing to do with this crime.

We remind you that on November 1 Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in one of London restaurants during a meeting with his informant Mario Skaramella. Litvinenko told that Skaramella handed over certain documents to him, which contained data on the murderers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the NEWSru.com reports.