Following up on my earlier post, here’s someone else speaking up on murdered Soviet spy Litvinenko’s behalf, with some even more enticing tidbits:
It emerged yesterday that Mr Litvinenko travelled to Israel just weeks before he died to hand over evidence to a Russian billionaire of how agents working for President Putin dealt with his enemies running the oil company.
He passed this information to Leonid Nevzlin, the former second-in-command of Yukos, who fled to Tel Aviv in fear for his life after the Kremlin seized and then sold off the £21 billion company.
Mr Nevzlin told The Times that it was his “duty” to pass on the file. “Alexander had information on crimes committed with the Russian Government’s direct participation,” he said.”He only recently gave me and my attorneys documents that shed light on the most significant aspects of the Yukos affair.”
Investigators have told The Times that Mr Litvinenko had apparently uncovered “startling” new material about the Yukos affair and what happened to those opposing the forced break-up of the company.
This only looks like a mesmerizing entertainment, folks. It has the potential to cause untold chaos geopolitically, however. Because of everything else going on in the world, we’re not really in a position to mess with Russia, our putative ally. And you all thought the Middle East was complicated!
