UK Tried to Recruit Me, Claims Litvinenko Suspect
Andrei Lugovoi tells Moscow press conference that British special services asked him to 'collect compromising information on Vladimir Putin'.
Andrei Lugovoi, named by Britain as a suspect in the killing of the former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, today claimed the UK's special services tried to recruit him.
At a press conference in Moscow, which he organised, Mr Lugovoi repeated his denials of involvement in Litvinenko's death.
British special services "asked me to collect compromising information on [the Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin", he said, according to a translation by the Russia Today television channel.
"Litvinenko was not my enemy," Mr Lugovoi, a former KGB bodyguard who is now a businessman, added. "I will fight to clear my name."
Earlier this week, the British ambassador to Moscow delivered a request for his extradition. The Crown Prosecution Service last week said there was enough evidence to charge him with Litvinenko's murder.
Litvinenko, a vehement critic of Mr Putin, died on November 23 last year. He had been poisoned with the radioactive isotope polonium-210.
At a press conference in Moscow, which he organised, Mr Lugovoi repeated his denials of involvement in Litvinenko's death.
British special services "asked me to collect compromising information on [the Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin", he said, according to a translation by the Russia Today television channel.
"Litvinenko was not my enemy," Mr Lugovoi, a former KGB bodyguard who is now a businessman, added. "I will fight to clear my name."
Earlier this week, the British ambassador to Moscow delivered a request for his extradition. The Crown Prosecution Service last week said there was enough evidence to charge him with Litvinenko's murder.
Litvinenko, a vehement critic of Mr Putin, died on November 23 last year. He had been poisoned with the radioactive isotope polonium-210.
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