Andrei Lugovoy WANTED for MURDER

CPS announces decision on Alexander Litvinenko case May 22, 2007, The Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, announced that the Crown Prosecution Service has made its decision in the Alexander Litvinenko case.

Lugovoy a "walking time bomb" Reuters Mark Trevelyan quotes Alex Goldfarb, "Lugovoy will probably show up dead very shortly," Goldfarb told Reuters. "If he talks -- and he understands that he is a walking time bomb for the Russian government -- then it will be really bad. I would be very much surprised if he lives long."

Britain, Russia square off in spy case Paul Reynolds, BBC News, describes the extradition process, then interviews Martin Sixsmith, who puts the whole situation in perspective, "You have to see this whole thing as part of the war between President Putin and his supporters and their opponents, which has burst into the open."

Litvinenko Killed by Lugovoy, Britain’s Investigators Said Kommersant questions why the second suspect, Dmitry Kovtum, was not charged with murder.

Ex-KGB Agent Accused in Litvinenko Death Tariq Panja, Breitbart, quotes Andrei Lugovoy, "I consider that this decision to be political, I did not kill Litvinenko, I have no relation to his death and I can only express well-founded distrust for the so-called basis of proof collected by British judicial officials. Moreover, there has never been either objective or subjective motives for committing what London is charging me with."


Britain demands Litvinenko handover PerthNow's Mark Trevelyan and Peter Graff report that Britain's Foreign Office summoned the Russian ambassador and told him in strong terms it expected “full cooperation” over Lugovoy's case but Russia's Prosecutor-General office said the constitution prevented it from extraditing Russian citizens. They're calling this an “extraordinarily grave crime”.

Mysterious Personage in Litvinenko's Case AXIS Information and Analysis, credits information received from a former employee of the Russian Public TV (ORT), assisting AIA to fill in a series of lacunas in biography of one of the main and the most mysterious personages of Alexander Litvinenko’s case, Andrei Lugovoy.




Memorandum of understanding on co-operation between the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales Signed November 15, 2006 by the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Alexander Zvyagintsev-Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales, Ken Macdonald QC-Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.

Timeline in Poisoning of Ex-KGB Agent Breibart provides a comprehensive time line of the period November 1, 2006 through today, May 22, 2007 when Andrei Lugovoy was named as the murder suspect.

Key figures in the Litvinenko affair USA Today, published a Who's Who in the Case of Alexander Litvinenko. The list includes, Andrei Lugovoy, Dmitry Kovtum, Mario Scaramella, Anna Politkovskaya, Boris Berezovsky, Akhmed Zakayev, and Vladimir Putin.