The Litvinenko Inquiry

The Litvinenko Inquiry
4.39pm. 279 The CCTV camera covering the approach to the lavatories off the reception
area was permanently recording and the footage does not show Mr Litvinenko entering
this area at any time. 280
6.297 Mr Litvinenko was therefore in the Millennium Hotel for a little over half an hour on
1 November 2006. That was when the meeting in the Pine Bar took place.
6.298 There is no CCTV footage of the meeting because there were no CCTV cameras
in the Pine Bar in 2006. There is, though, other evidence. Mr Litvinenko told the
police what happened during his interviews in hospital and both Mr Lugovoy and
Mr Kovtun have, as we shall see, given their own accounts. I also heard evidence
from Mr Andrade, the head barman who served them that afternoon. 281
6.299 Mr Andrade had a good memory of serving the three men that afternoon. He
was assisted by the bar bill, which the police had obtained as part of their initial
investigation. 282 He was sure that he had served the men – he explained that the bill
bore the name of a different member of staff because he had been using someone
else’s log on card that day.
6.300 Mr Andrade recalled that Mr Lugovoy had initially approached him and asked for a
cigar, and that he and two others had subsequently sat at a table in the Pine Bar,
where Mr Andrade had served them. The bill recorded that there were three guests
in the group and that they had sat at table 1; Mr Andrade was confident that these
details were correct. A number of drinks were listed on the bill, both alcoholic and
non-alcoholic. Mr Andrade said that the men had made a number of different orders
during the time that they were in the bar. He said that he would not necessarily have
entered the details into the computer at the time the orders were made. In fact, the bill
was timed at 4.33pm, so it would appear that the details were only entered at about
the time the group were leaving the bar. He said that the bill would have been signed
by Mr Lugovoy.
279
Mascall 16/172-173
280
Mascall 16/157-158
281
Andrade 16/111-141
282
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