Spy Games: How MI5 Helps Russia’s Exiled Oligarchs Scheme and Murder One Another
"London is promoting a campaign on the Skripal's case using the previously developed anti-Russian scenario", the General Prosecutor's Office has stated today. The establishment has found similarities between Skripal's and Aleksandr Litvinenko's poisonings and Berezovsky's murder. Russian experts are sure that Berezovsky was interested in Litvinenko's death. And Berezovsky's death was good for the British government In all these cases, London has refused to cooperate with Moscow to identify the suspects.
Dmitry Melnikov has the documents that were published by the General Prosecutor's Office. These groundless accusations that London has been throwing towards Moscow from the first day have forced Russian law enforcement to make public some previously unknown documents. They shed some light on the actions of the British security services and the British government. General Prosecutor's Office representatives show the journalists the correspondence between them and Theresa May. She is the head of the government and the former head of the UK's Home Office. This is one of the letters that was sent from Moscow to Theresa May personally in 2010 regarding the British government providing safety for those involved in the Berezovsky case.
The letter is about Vladimir Terlyuk who lives in the UK, and who was forced by Berezovsky and his partners to give false testimony in 2003 to speed up the process of receiving political asylum for Berezovsky.
Nikolay Atmotyev, advisor to Russia's General Prosecutor: "Terlyuk's statement said that from May to September of 2007, Berezovsky, Litvinenko, Aleksandr Goldfarb, and their UK attorneys had been threatening and bribing Terlyuk for a long time to force him into going to the British authorities and claim that he was involved with Russia's intelligence services, and about Terlyuk's alleged involvement in the planning of Berezovsky's murder."
According to the General Prosecutor's Office, Terlyuk refused to commit perjury. That's when Litvinenko and Goldfrab reported him, following Berezovsky's orders. Scotland Yard began their investigation, but the case was closed due to lack of proof of a planned murder. However, Berezovsky immediately received political asylum in London due to his possible assassination. London was well aware that this threat was fictional, but they were playing their own game.
Saak Karapetyan, Deputy-Prosecutor General of Russia: "These documents prove that the when UK's authorities granted political refugee status to Berezovsky, they were aware that his statement that an assassination being planned on Berezovsky in London in the summer of 2003, was false. This was used by him as a reason to obtain political asylum. These papers also state that, several months before Litvinenko's death, the Home Office had proof that Litvinenko was in danger, along with other people involved in Berezovsky's political asylum process, based on his alleged assassination plan. However, no measures were taken to protect these people".
The witness and direct participant of the planned assassination of Berezovsky, Litvinenko was poisoned in London when he became a threat to the fugitive oligarch. This was stated by the General Prosecutor's Office. London denies all requests to provide access to the Litvinenko case. All of the documents are strictly confidential. However, the investigators from the Hamburg Prosecutor's Office shared the materials with Russia. Here's the conclusion from our German colleagues that completely contradicts London's version that was widely spread in the media.
Nikolay Atmotyev, advisor to Russia's General Prosecutor: "According to the conclusions made by our German colleagues, the evaluation of all of the evidence collected by the Hamburg Prosecutor's Office, including data received from the UK about their authorities finding polonium-210 in the contaminated areas, proves that polonium was in London before Lugovoy and Kovtun arrived there on November 1st, 2006. According to the conclusion by Prosecutor Reder, the most severe contamination, judging from the data that the British police provided to Germany, the most concentrated radioactive levels were discovered in Berezovsky's London office".
Mysterious events with Russians in the UK — the deaths of Litvinenko, Berezovsky, the former Aeroflot manager Glushkov, and the Skripals' poisoning. Russian General Prosecutor's Office notices similar modi operandi, as well as the Brits' suspicious lack of desire to cooperate to find the truth. It looks like Theresa May plays a big role here. The highest number of refusals to share information and to extradite Russian fugitives occurred in the years when she was the Head of the Home Office.
Dmitry Melnikov, Aleksandr Antonov, Vesti.