Is There More to the Story?

The Guardian, January 26, 2008, reporters Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levi, have done an thorough job of revisiting the Litvinenko case, and introduce us to a whole new set of characters in the unsolved mystery. This is an excellent article, chronicling events leading up to Alexander Litvinenko's assassination, as well as revisiting the Italian conspiracy theory. You decide...is there more to the story?

Gerald Batten, a British MEP from the UK Independence party




Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister







Massimo D'Alema, former communist prime minister






Robert Seldon Lady, a political officer at the US consulate in Milan, an undercover CIA agent





Maxim Litvinenko (Senigallia, Italy), Alexander Litvinenko's brother who also fled Russia

Semion Mogilevich, the darkest figure in Russian organised crime, a notorious Ukrainian whose network extended from Kiev to Naples; runs a private army of brutal killers; a striking man at barely 5ft 6in and more than 20 stone, has a portfolio that includes private banks, financing the sale of enriched uranium and laundering his money through companies listed on the New York stock exchange; was on the FBI's wanted list; had extensive links to Putin's government.

Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Green party leader







Armando Spataro, Italian prosecutor, with alledged links to the KGB




Alexander Talik, FSB agent hiding in Naples, a man he believed had been in deep cover since 1999, Ukrainian by birth, strong links to Mogilevich's mob, was born in 1970 and, had served with the Red Army before being recruited by the FSB, where he rose to the rank of captain.

General Anatoly Trofimov, former KGB deputy, who in warned Litvinenko in 2000 not to go to Rome since "Prodi is our man in Italy". [Romano Prodi, the former Italian Prime Minister who went on to become president of the European Commission.]



Vitalich, a courrier to three powerful sponsors, all siloviki, in Moscow.