01 January 2007, 18:52
Litvinenko's murder is now linked with death of Putin's bodyguard
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office is now considering a version that connects the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB officer, in London with two other undiscovered poisonings, the London newspaper The Sunday Times asserts. One of them is the death of Roman Tsepov, former bodyguard of Vladimir Putin, who interfered, according to some sources, into the course of talks on the YUKOS' fate.
Mr. Tsepov died two years ago "as a result of a heavy radiation disease caused by unknown substance that got into the organism with drinks or meal," the paper reports. The symptoms were strikingly similar to the ones of Litvinenko, who died in the London hospital on November 23 from poisoning with polonium-210. According to the Russian version, the cause of his death was poisoning with a medicine used to treat leukaemia, however, Roman Tsepov never suffered from this disease, the NESru.com reports.
On November 1, Alexander Litvinenko had a meeting with his informant Mario Scaramella. Mr. Litvinenko later reported that Scaramella gave him certain documents containing information on the killers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
