Evgueni Limarev, Evgueni Kholodor, Evgeny, Evgeni, Andrey, Yevgeny and Evgueni Limanov are all names or aliases used by this individual, born-1965. His website (www.rusglobus.net) refers you to his Press Agent:
Agency "
Misiukevicius & Partners"
A.Smetonos 6-6, LT-01115, Vilnius, Lithuania
Mobile tel. +370656 62229
land phone: +370 5 2430665
r.sabas@mirp.lt
limarev_evgueni@hotmail.com
The memo handed to Alexander Litvinenko was written by Evgueni Limarev, whose father served with the KGB in the 1970s, who now lives in Switzerland, specializing in researching such groups. He sent this list to the Italian security expert Mario Scaramella, who showed it to Litvinenko in a Piccadilly sushi bar on the day that he fell ill.
Mr Limarev, who used to work with Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB) before he fled Moscow, did not expect to be identified publicly. “Now my name has been linked to this case I really fear something might happen to me,” he said last week. He claims that sources in Russia who passed him the hit list are being hunted by the FSB and have had to go to ground after armed agents searched their homes and other locations.
Evgeny Limarev, who told the former KGB officer that he was on a death list, just hours before he was poisoned, was reported to have fled his home in the French Alps, where he was under police protection. Before his disappearance, he said that British detectives wanted to question him about the origins of a hit list that included Litvinenko’s name among the targets being hunted by a team of former Russian agents working across Europe.
Limarev also responded to claims that he sent information to Scaramella which caused him to set up the sushi lunch. He is said to have warned that both Scaramella and Litvinenko were at risk of being killed by renegade members of Spetsnaz, the Russian equivalent of the SAS, because of their criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Spetsnaz, an elite unit attached to the intelligence section of the army, specializes in close quarters hand-to-hand combat.
Limarev also claimed that he was the victim of a suspicious robbery in Rome on the day that news of Litvinenko's condition broke. While he was in Italy, a bag containing Limarev's personal papers and house keys were stolen. Three days later the keys were used to try to gain entry to his safe house 500 miles away, but the locks had already been changed. He said: 'What worries me is that very few people knew I was in Italy and knew where I was staying. They tried to enter my house very professionally. The tyres on my car had also been let down.'
Limarev says he first encountered Litvinenko in 2001, contacting him to ask him to speak to Berezovsky about possible business deals. Litvinenko then introduced Limarev to Scaramella, who invited him to help with his work on an Italian Parliamentary investigation, the Mitrokhin Commissiion, into KGB activity in the country during the Cold War. Limarev says he stopped working for Scaramella in 2005 after he became concerned about the Commission's activities. Limarev, whose father was a senior KGB officer, says he retains good sources in the Russian intelligence services.
Limarev, 41, who admits to links with Russian intelligence agencies but denies reports that he was ever a listed KGB officer, fled Russia seven years ago after falling out with influential politicians and businessmen in Moscow. Chain-smoking nervously, he denied being the sole source of the information which Scaramella used as a pretext to arrange the lunch. 'I was just one of many sources for that information,' he said. 'Scaramella used me to distract attention from himself and because he was scared.'
