Ex-KGB spy: UK tried to recruit me [View All]

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- The man charged by Britain with murdering former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko has denied involvement, saying British intelligence and a self-exiled Russian billionaire were far more likely suspects.

In the latest twist to a sensational murder case which has revived memories of the Cold War and seriously damaged British-Russian relations, Britain's main suspect Andrei Lugovoi sought to parry the accusations against him.

"Britain is making me a scapegoat," a confident and combative Lugovoi, himself a former KGB agent, told a packed news conference in Moscow Thursday, which was televised live on state-owned television.

Lugovoi said he did not know for sure who killed Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in London last November but said there were three possible suspects: British intelligence, the mafia and Boris Berezovsky, a billionaire tycoon who fled Russia for London after falling out with President Vladimir Putin.



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