Litvenenko Killed Because Of Dirt On Kremlin Figure?

Well he was a spy, wasn't he?

friend of Alexander Litvinenko said he believes the former Russian agent was murdered because he possessed allegedly damaging information about a high-ranking Kremlin figure, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday.

Yuri Shvets, a former KGB agent now based in the United States, said he and Litvinenko had worked together providing confidential background information for international companies before possible investment in Russia. Shvets told the BBC his friend was poisoned after an eight-page dossier complied by Litvinenko — which allegedly contained sensitive material and has now been given to Scotland Yard — was leaked to the unnamed figure in Moscow.

Shvets said that his friend showed the dossier to Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB agent and one of the men he met at a London hotel on Nov. 1, the day Litvinenko fell ill.

Showing Lugovoi the report "triggered the assassination," Shvets said. He told the BBC that he believed Lugovoi was still working for the Russian security services, and had leaked the information to the man in Moscow.

Via Michael's Comments, which thinks the BBC is guilty of misreporting in claiming actress Natasha Lyonne threatened to sexually molest someone's dog.

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