Alexander Litvinenko told Met police Putin ordered his murder, inquiry told
Source: Guardian UK
Alexander Litvinenko accused Vladimir Putin of personally ordering his murder in deathbed interviews with the Metropolitan police in the days before he died, the public inquiry into his killing has heard.
On the opening day of the inquiry into the Russian’s murder in 2006, the court was told that the dead man spoke to officers from his hospital bed, after being poisoned by radioactive polonium, in which he said he had “no doubt whatsoever that this was done by the Russian secret service”.
“Having knowledge of this system I know that this order about such a killing of a citizen of another country on its territory, especially if it is something to do with Great Britain, could have been given only by one person,” Litvinenko had told the investigating officer, Robin Tam QC, counsel to the inquiry, told the court on Tuesday.
Asked who that person was, said Tam, Litvinenko said: “That person is the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. And of course, now while he is still president you won’t be able, because he is the president of a huge country crammed with nuclear chemical and bacteriological weapons.
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