The Sunday Times November 26, 2006
Mark Franchetti
KREMLIN sources said they did not rule out the possibility that Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch living in London, may have been behind the death of Alexander Litvinenko.
The source was angered by accusations in the press — and in the deathbed statement of the former spy — that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, or the FSB, the country’s security service, had been behind the poisoning.
“At the moment we don’t have any evidence and honestly we don’t know who killed Litvinenko, but one thing is for sure, it was not the Russian state,” said the source. “I don’t believe in coincidences. It seems very strange that Litvinenko’s letter accusing the president of murder should be made public just when Putin is sitting down to an EU summit in Helsinki.
“If you ask the question who had the most to gain from all this, the answer can only be Berezovsky, a man who by his own admission is out on a campaign to discredit Putin and the Kremlin.”
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