Arkady Edelev (L) discovered that London emigrant Litvinenko was making his way stealthily into Ramzan Kadyrov’s (R) republic thru Georgia.
Photo: Valery Melnikov
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Chechen Trace Trailed to Litvinenko Case
// Russia’s Interior Ministry amplified Andrei Lugovoi’s version
The press conference of businessman Andrei Lugovoi, charged with the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London, received a scandalous sequel. Lugovoi had said that British special service MI6 and political emigrant Boris Berezovsky might be linked to Litvinenko’s death. Russia’s Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Edelev said on Friday that Berezovsky financed terrorist Basaev, while Litvinenko personally came to Chechnya to liquidate the witnesses of it. Besides, General Edelev claimed that Western special services could have been linked to terrorist acts in Russia.
Russia’s Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Edelev said on Friday in Nalchik that his ministry has “reliable data on Alexander Litvinenko’s visits to Chechnya, where he arrived thru Georgia’s territory”. “He arrived there with the purpose to destroy the traces of Boris Berezovsky’s participation in financing illegal armed groupings and contacts with Basaev,” Edelev said.
Later, Edelev said, Litvinenko came to North Caucasia from London, on Berezovsky’s order, to “liquidate the witnesses of his criminal liens with Chechen militant commanders.”
Meanwhile, Berezovsky said all these sensations in the Litvinenko case, delivered by the Russian authorities, are aimed at domestic consumers: “The West has lost trust in such statements long time ago.”
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