Britain’s prosecutors have rejected to exchange exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky for Andrey Lugovoy, on the photo.
Photo: Alexey Kudenko
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London Refused to Swap Berezovsky for Lugovoy
Britain’s prosecutors have rejected the Soviet-style offer of Vladimir Vasiliev, chairman of State Duma’s Security Committee, to exchange exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky for Andrey Lugovoy. Lugovoy is suspected of killing ex-officer of FSB Alexander Litvinenko by polonium-210.
On April 16, 2007, Russia’s prosecutors made an official request to Britain to strip Berezovsky of the asylum status and to extradite him to Russia. In Russia, a criminal case was initiated against Berezovsky following his interview to The Guardian, where he called to topple President Vladimir Putin by force and acknowledged funding a coup in the country.
But in Britain, they are skeptical about Russia’s chances to get Berezovsky, the more so that the court turned down the previous extraditing request of Russia, and the precedent is nearly everything in judicial system of U.K.
As to Andrey Lugovoy, he is the chief suspect in the assassination case of Alexander Litvinenko. Ex-officer of FSB, Litvinenko died in a London hospital from polonium poisoning after meeting with Russia’s Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun in Millennium Hotel on November 1. So today’s desire of Britain’s prosecutors is to bring Lugovoy before a Britain’s court for Litvinenko’s murder.
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