Self-exiled Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky speaks during a news conference.
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Berezovsky Denied Involvement in Politkovskaya's Murder
When interviewed by Echo Moskvy, Russia’s exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky refuted the accusations of Dmitry Dovgy, the suspended-of-duty chief of the Main Investigating Committee of the RF Prosecutor General Office. Dovgy said exactly Berezovsky had ordered to kill Novaya Gazeta investigating reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
The allegation of Dmitry Dovgy is “absolutely unserious,” Berezovsky said, viewing it as another attempt to distract investigators from the search of the true orderer of the crime.
“Our most invincible conviction is that it was Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, through Khozh-Ahmed Nukhaev,” Dovgy told Russia’s Izvestia newspaper, when speaking about the person who might have ordered Politkovskaya’s assassination.
“The murder roots not in her articles, but rather in her personality. Here she was, so bright, in opposition to the current authorities, meeting Berezovsky, that’s for what she was killed,” Dovgy explained.
One of the aims, Dovgy went on, was “to show that such famous persons could be killed here in broad daylight, that the law enforcement bodies are allegedly unable to solve such crimes.”
Dovgy is by far not the only one who links Berezovsky to Politkovskaya’s murder. In August, Andrei Lugovoy declared Berezovsky’s involvement in killing Alexander Litvinenko and in other big-name murders, including the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya.
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