The Litvinenko Inquiry

The Litvinenko Inquiry
late 2004/early 2005
AL started work with Spanish
intelligence services
2005 AL contacted by Roman Shubin,
an investigator from the Ukranian
Prosecutor’s Office regarding the
Kuchma tapes
last quarter of 2005
AL took Lugovoy to meet Garym Evans
at RISC’s offices
23 January 2006 AL and ML attended BB’s 60th birthday
party, at which Lugovoy was also
present. Lugovoy and AL subsequently
struck up business relationship
first quarter of 2006
RISC tasked AL with making enquiries
into Russian agriculture minister,
Alexei Gordeyev (AGor), on behalf of
Stolichnaya vodka
6 March 2006 VP signed Federal Law no.35-FZ of
2006 On Counteraction of Terrorism
April/May 2006
April/May 2006
May 2006
Lugovoy and AL attended a meeting
with Daniel Quirke and Cliff Knuckey at
RISC’s offices regarding Lugovoy and
AL’s enquiries into AGor
AL met with Dr Julia Svetlichnaya on
several occasions
AL started working with Dean Attew
(DA)
Marina Litvinenko
3/155-157
INQ017734 (page 22)
Evans 7/31
INQ017734 (page 30);
INQ018999; Marina
Litvinenko 4/15-16
Quirke 11/70-74
INQ019146
(pages 20-21
paragraph 64)
Quirke 11/79-82
Svetlichnaya 25/91;
25/94
Attew 13/17
18 June 2006 Break in at 25 Grosvenor Street Attew 13/67
June 2006
June/July 2006
second half of
June 2006
June/July 2006
DA met Lugovoy and AL at Heathrow
airport
AL and Lugovoy met with Tim Reilly
(TR) at Erinys’ offices
BB reduced financial support to AL
AL told Yuri Shvets (YS) that he had
been fired by BB because of some
intrigues
5 July 2006 AL published article on Chechenpress
website accusing VP of being a
paedophile
27 July 2006 Federal Law of 25 July 2002 On
Counteracting Extremist Activity
amended and received presidential
approval
Attew 13/45-47
Reilly 10/63; 10/68
Marina Litvinenko
3/125-127; Cotlick
25/37-38; 25/41-43
Shvets 24/56-57
BLK000134;
Marina Litvinenko
3/139-140
INQ019146 (page 21
paragraph 65)
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