Apr 22 2007

Litvinenko Arrest Warrants?

Published by at 8:26 am under All General Discussions

There are reports all over the press that Scotland Yard is expected to issue arrest warrants in the case of the Po-210 death of Alexander Litvinenko last November:

Police are to issue arrest warrants against three Russian suspects in the poisoning of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, it is claimed today.

British police have enough evidence to bring charges “within three weeks,” The Mail on Sunday reported, citing unidentified sources described as close to Litvinenko’s widow, Marina.

Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who helped create a foundation dedicated to pressuring British and Russian investigators to bring those responsible for the poisoning to justice, said Marina Litvinenko has not mentioned any arrests to him. Scotland Yard has not commented on the report, saying it does not discuss arrest warrants before they are issued.

I have nothing personal against Litvinenko’s wife Marins, but ev everyone close to her is an associate of Berezovsly’s. And I question the timing of this statement given Berezovsky is in hot water for his comments supporting and finnancially backing a coup d’etat in the Democratic Russian government. And the reporting here is as bad as usual with this case:

The arrest warrants are expected to be issued against the Russian businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi and Vyacheslav Sokolenko, the head of a private Russian security firm, according to the newspaper report.

Sokolenko did not meet with Litvinenko and spent his entire day with his family. I don’t even think he was found to have any Po-210 exposure. So any ‘reporting’ on this seems to smack of speculation. Is it possible there are three Russians in the cross hairs? Sure, but I doubt it should be these three. It seems The Daily Mail is the source for all the breaking news.

The Metropolitan Police refused to comment on the murder inquiry, but Litvinenko family sources told The Mail on Sunday police had enough evidence to bring charges ‘within three weeks’.

I seriously doubt the police told the family anything since the family is a well known leaker to the media. All the anti-Putin, anti-Lugovoi, anti-Kovtun stuff in the press is always sourced or announced by Berezovsky allies. And it is Beresovsky who refused to answer questions regarding finances (which is clearly a relevant line of inquire when dealing with the smuggling of nuclear material as expensive as Po-210). The trail of Po-210 leads to Berezovsky’s office and another mystery office at 56 Grosvenor square. And Berezovsky is STILL calling for the undemocratic overthrow of the Russian Government:

And, repeating earlier attacks on Mr Putin, whom he accused of corruption before escaping Russia, Mr Berezovsky added: “Any other way of changing this anti-constitutional regime, except for a coercive one which includes revolution, is impossible.

Berezovsky spends huge amounts of money to manipulate the media. And we still might have vast amounts of Po-210 out there some place, or some other method of fomenting divide is always available. These reports could be nothing more than prepatory work for a pending action by the corrupt Oligarchs to take action before elections can happen. And their alliance with the violent Chechen rebels (including Litvinenko’s) is hard to ignore when trying to decide which side is better. Do we stick with the democratically elected government allied with us against terrorism or do we side with an illegal grab for power which is allied with terrorists.

Only the media is failing to see the obvious danger in buying into Berezovsky’s madness. Of course, they are so gullible it is hard not to see why.

4 responses so far

4 Responses to “Litvinenko Arrest Warrants?”

  1. nomad_990 says:

    Can’t you just accept for the moment that Putin just might be behind this? Use Occam’s razor…

  2. pentole.coperchi says:

    You forgot the source Gordievsky…. quite near to Litvineko’s wife and actively cooperating with MI6.
    A security firm? Yes.
    All this mess is linked to a dossier on the recent Yukos assets auction.
    This dossier was showed to too many people (including Lugovoi and Scaramella – he also was talking about some infos on that topic in an a wiretapped phone-call), some of these working for FSB.

  3. MerlinOS2 says:

    AJ

    That is precisely why I haven’t followed this story to closely. All of the details seem to be coming from close in potential smoke and mirrors players.

  4. AJStrata says:

    Nomad,

    Of course it is possible, the evidence doesn’t show it. I don’t care about anything but evidence.