The Litvinenko Inquiry

The Litvinenko Inquiry
believed. Something else that will be of relevance to this issue is the action that
Mr Lugovoy took only a few minutes after Mr Kovtun had spoken to C2 and discovered
that he was too busy to meet that day: he telephoned Mr Litvinenko. I will return to that
telephone call shortly.
Movements of Mr Litvinenko
6.274 DI Mascall gave evidence about Mr Litvinenko’s movements on 1 November 2006. 249
By drawing on what Mr Litvinenko had said to the police in interview and the statements
given by those he had met, as well as CCTV and telephone evidence, it was possible
to identify very precisely what he did and where he went that day prior to the meeting
at the Pine Bar:
a. Mr Litvinenko spent the morning of 1 November at home. During the morning
he made arrangements by telephone for meetings later in the day. I will return to
those calls in due course
b. Mr Litvinenko left home at about 12.30pm. He travelled into central London by
bus and tube, arriving at Oxford Circus shortly after 1.30pm. The bus on which he
travelled was subsequently identified and tested for radiation. No radiation was
detected 250
c. From Oxford Circus, Mr Litvinenko walked to Mr Attew’s office, where he had
a meeting with Mr Attew at about 2.00pm which lasted about half an hour.
Mr Litvinenko did not eat or drink anything during the meeting 251
d. On leaving Mr Attew’s office, Mr Litvinenko walked towards Piccadilly, where he
was due to meet Mr Scaramella at 3.00pm. He stopped en route at the Russian
Market near St James’ Piccadilly and spoke for about 15 minutes with his friend
Mr Tabunov 252
e. Mr Litvinenko met Mr Scaramella at Piccadilly Circus at 3.00pm. They walked
together to the itsu restaurant on Piccadilly, where they stayed for about half an
hour 253
f. Mr Litvinenko left itsu at 3.40pm and walked north towards the Millennium Hotel.
He arrived at the Millennium Hotel just before 4.00pm 254
Arrangements for meeting
6.275 There was an issue on the evidence as to how, and in particular on whose initiative,
the meeting at the Pine Bar was arranged.
6.276 It has been a theme of the accounts given by Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun over time
that it was Mr Litvinenko who wanted to meet them on that day. Thus, for example,
in the Declaration that he made at the British Embassy in Moscow on 23 November
249
Mascall 16/55-99; 16/141-158
250
Mascall 16/63-67 see paragraphs 6.21-6.24 above for discussion regarding the value of ‘negative’
findings.
251
Mascall 16/67-69; Attew 13/52-56
252
Mascall 16/69-74; Tabunov 13/115-142
253
Mascall 16/73-86; Scaramella 15/124-136
254
Mascall 16/86; 16/91-94
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