Mafia State



According to the is report from The Sunday Times, Andrei Lugovoi, the main suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko is living 'high on the hog' in Russia where he is  currently making a television programme based on the life stories of two former KGB officers.

I wonder what the former American 'spy' Eric Snowden makes of all this now that he is holed up in Moscow, protected by a Russian state which is trampling all over Ukraine while propping up the murderous regime of President Assad in Syria.    

Litvinenko’s ‘killer’ turns their KGB days into TV show

By Mark Franchetti - The Sunday Times

Andrei Lugovoi at his marriage to Xenia, then 23, in 2013 (lzvestia)

BODYGUARD at his side, Andrei Lugovoi stares out across the snow-covered banks of the Moscow River.

The former KGB bodyguard, who is the prime suspect in the murder of his one-time colleague Alexander Litvinenko, is keen to talk about a new project: a television series, the plot of which sounds familiar.


“It tells the story of two KGB officers during the turbulent years when Russia went from communism to capitalism,” said Lugovoi, 48. “One chooses to serve the motherland, the other to work for an oligarch and betray his country.”
It does not require much imagination to realise the two officers are based on Lugovoi and Litvinenko — and the oligarch on Boris Berezovksy, who fled Russia in 2000 after falling out with President Vladimir Putin.

While a public inquiry into Litvinenko’s death was unfolding in the High Court in London last week, the man accused of lacing his tea with lethal polonium at a Mayfair hotel in 2006 dismissed proceedings as a “highly politicised farce”. Lugovoi said: “The whole thing is rubbish and I refuse to take part: it’s a political game.

“First they refuse to have an inquest because they have something to hide, and now, just when there’s a crisis over Ukraine, they start one to sully Russia.”

Lugovoi, who has refused to hand himself over to British authorities, denies that he and childhood friend Dmitry Kovtun poisoned Litvinenko to prevent him exposing links between organised crime and Putin. Russia’s president was described by Ben Emmerson QC, acting for Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, as a “common criminal dressed up as a head of state”.

Lugovoi also dismissed new claims that Kovtun — a former KGB officer who worked as a waiter in Hamburg — asked a former colleague there whether he knew any cooks in London who “might put poison in Litvinenko’s food or drink”.

The claims were “ridiculous”, Lugovoi said, asking: “Do you really think we would be that stupid?”

The businessman and politician says Litvinenko was killed by Berezovsky with the tacit consent of British intelligence. Both men were granted asylum in Britain, where they launched a vociferous campaign against Putin. Berezovsky was found dead at his home in Berkshire in 2013.

Emmerson dismissed Lugovoi’s theory as “ludicrous”. But many in Russia back Lugovoi's version, which is to be put forward in the television series being shot for a Kremlin-controlled channel. Lugovoi is a consultant on the project. Two of the episodes, to air in the autumn, will be set in London — but not shot there: Russia’s economic crisis, brought on by western sanctions over Ukraine and the fall of the rouble, have made filming in Britain too expensive. Lugovoi’s wife, whom he married in 2013, will have a small part as Berezovsky’s secretary.

Murad Aliev, the series director, said: “I can’t reveal much about the ending but one thing is clear.

“When it comes to the Litvinenko affair, things are not the way we’ve been led to believe by Britain.”

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