The Litvinenko Inquiry

Part 9 | Chapters 1 to 12 | Who directed the killing?
whether there was a link between the information that Mr Limarev was receiving and
any plans that were in fact being made at the time to murder Ms Politkovskaya and
Mr Litvinenko – or indeed any others on the hit list.
9.155 What can be said, though, is that the warnings that Mr Limarev passed on to
Mr Scaramella and, through him, to Mr Litvinenko, were entirely consistent with the
points that can be drawn from the run of the cases that are described above. Leading
opponents of President Putin, including those living outside Russia, were at risk of
assassination. One of the risks they faced was that of being poisoned.
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