United Kingdom described the measures against the defendants in the case Litvinenko – RBC

The head of the British Home Office Theresa May

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As stated by Interior Minister Theresa May United Kingdom, speaking in the House of Commons after the announcement of the outcome of a public inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the assets of a State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi and businessman Dmitry Kovtun must be frozen. If Litvinenko and Kovtun, will be in Europe, they will be arrested. Interpol has issued a warrant for their arrest.

At the same time the British authorities, according to May, are not going to introduce visa restrictions for Kovtun and Litvinenko because legal procedures may require their presence.

Earlier Thursday, January 21, the chairman of the public inquiry into the murder of Litvinenko, Sir Robert Owen announced his decision following the hearing of the case on the poisoning of former FSB officer polonium. The judge called the MP Lugovoi and businessman Kovtun likely perpetrators of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

Operation as the judge said Owen, “may have been approved,” Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, who then headed the FSB, and and President Vladimir Putin.

Mei said that Litvinenko’s death was a “shock.” The findings of the investigation, she said, added clarity to the Litvinenko case. Mei stressed “tireless” efforts of Litvinenko’s widow, Maria Litvinenko, to establish the truth about the death of her husband.

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The head of the British Home Office also announced that the government was “extremely serious” accepts the findings of the investigation, according to which Litvinenko was poisoned Lugovoi and Kovtun and the whole operation was probably approved by Putin. The United Kingdom, according to Mei extremely outraged by the fact that the Russian government may have been involved in Litvinenko’s death.

Such interference head of the British Ministry of the Interior called a flagrant and material breach of the fundamental principles of international law and civilized behavior. ” At the same time, May said that if we take into account the behavior of Russia as a whole, there is nothing surprising happened.

Russia’s ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko will be summoned to the British Foreign Office in connection with the findings of the investigation. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the English judge’s findings as politically motivated.

According to Mei, closed version of the report on the case of Litvinenko, who prepared the Sir Robert Owen, contains recommendations to the Government in relation to the circumstances discovered in the Litvinenko case.

During his speech, Theresa May in Parliament Office of the British Prime Minister David Cameron called the very alarming conclusion that the murder may have been authorized by the Russian authorities at the highest level.

The widow of Alexander Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko, Cameron urged to introduce visa and financial sanctions against “all identified in people, not excluding Nikolai Patrushev and Vladimir Putin.”