Posted on 12/27/2006 12:26:05 PM PST by A. Pole
MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors said on Wednesday that Leonid Nevzlin, a former top manager of the YUKOS business empire, could have ordered the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
"A version is being looked at that those who ordered these crimes could be the same people who are on an international wanted list for serious and very serious crimes, one of whom is ... Leonid Nevzlin," Russia's prosecutor-general's office said in a statement posted on its Web site www.genproc.gov.ru.
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A trusted business partner of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Nevzlin has provoked the Kremlin's ire by slamming Putin for the destruction of YUKOS, which he says was political motivated.
After Khodorkovsky's arrest in Oct. 2003, Nevzlin fled to Israel and later received Israeli citizenship.
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Litvinenko, who died in London on Nov. 23, made a deathbed statement accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder. The Kremlin called Litvinenko's allegations "nonsense".
His slow, agonising death in a London hospital from poisoning by radioactive polonium 210 has prompted a five-nation police investigation and scorched the Kremlin's reputation, despite its repeated denials of any involvement in the murder.
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A single team has been created to investigate the Litvinenko and YUKOS cases, the prosecutor-general said.
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Litvinenko's friend Alexander Goldfarb called the prosecutor-general's statement "sheer nonsense".
"This statement is a very clumsy effort to shift the blame for this murder and it only adds to the suspicion that the Russian government is standing behind this murder," he said.
Russia wants to try Nevzlin for a series of killings which a Russian court has said were carried out by the former head of security at YUKOS.
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see #8
But don't you agree that this tagline matches your position? In the free world you are being bombarded every day with commercials, ads, promotions and they all want money from you. You can have the tagline for free :)
I could smell the kegebuns even against the wind - and I do not need any taglines for it, my life experience suffices. See # 8, it is a short distillation.
Note the wording: "Kremlin claims ex-Yukos chief ordered murder of Litvinenko"
"A former manager of the bankrupt Russian oil company Yukos could have ordered the poisoning of the ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian government has alleged."
& on and on & on ...
Good point!
Rule # 3, then Rule # 1.
The Kremlin is planting disinformation as usual.
This might be an otolaryngological problem :)
Nah. Comes with the experience on the receiving end, which I [it's a holiday season, after all] wish to you.
Well, so much for any shred of credibility the Kremlin's own "investigation" had ....
Interesting...Thanks george76.
P.S. I'm still pissed at the GOP over Election 2006. So many good first-time candidates and Congress squandered the opportunity.
This is the point of view I am leaning towards as well. But then again there is always a first time for a slip-up even by a shrewd political animal.
And then there also is the slightest of possibilities that what appears obvious is right and true because many would claim it to be impossible and conveniently look in other directions anyway.
He had "slip-ups", one was to neglect Kursk PR disaster.
True.
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