An Officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)
Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin
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FSB Opened Spying Acton in the Wake of Lugovoy’s Free-Spoken Remarks
Russia’s Federal Security Service (or FSB) has initiated a criminal action on spying count in the wake of statements of FSB former officer Andrey Lugovoy, RIA Novosti reported referring to a source.
Though no particular details were provided, it is easy to suppose that the matter at sake could be Lugovoy’s remarks about political refugee Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko, who died of polonium poisoning past November.
When speaking to reporters May 31, 2007, Lugovoy said that Britain’s M16 had hooked Litvinenko and Berezovsky. As to Berezovsky, he became an agent of foreign intelligence once he handed in some files of the RF Security Council, where he had been one of the chiefs in 1996 to 1997.
Litvinenko had attempted to hook him as well, Lugovoy said, to get the compromising information against President Vladimir Putin.
FSB and prosecutors are thoroughly checking Lugovy’s statements made at that news conference. Berezovsky predictably denied any links to M16.
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