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British Prosecutors Deny Litvinenko Charges Were Blocked

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Aleksandr Litvinenko

Aleksandr Litvinenko days before his November 2006 death of radiation poisoning
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May 20, 2007 -- The British prosecutors' office denies that Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett prevented them from charging two Russians in the killing of Aleksandr Litvinenko for fear of upsetting the Kremlin, as a British daily reported.

Ken MacDonald, the director of public prosecutions in England, said the report about Beckett is "completely untrue."

Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun are key suspects in the murder of Litvinenko, the former Federal Security Service officer who died in November of radiation contamination.


Lugovoi and Kovtun are former KGB agents who had tea with Litvinenko in London on the day he was poisoned. Both are in Moscow.



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