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Russian spy who was accused of murdering Alexander Litvinenko is tasked with heading up the probe into Alexei Navalny’s poisoning

  • Andrei Lugovoy was accused by Britain of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko
  • He is now high up in a Russian anti-corruption committee and is a Putin ally
  • The body has been tasked with investigating the poisoning of Alexei Navalny
  • The dissident politician was poisoned with Novichok during a flight in Russia 

The Russian spy who was accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko has been given a major role in the investigation into Alexei Navalny’s poisoning.

Andrei Lugovoy, 54, is high up in Moscow’s Security and Anti-Corruption committee which has been tasked with probing the latest poison attack on an anti-Kremlin figure.

Vladimir Putin‘s ally previously worked as a KGB ally and is still wanted by British authorities over Litvinenko’s poisoning with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, but Russia have denied his extradition.

Andrei Lugovoy (pictured), who was accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko has been given a major role in the investigation into Alexei Navalny's poisoning
Andrei Lugovoy (pictured), who was accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko has been given a major role in the investigation into Alexei Navalny’s poisoning

Navalny, a prominent Putin critic, left his Berlin hospital for the first time this week after being poisoned with Novichok, the same substance used in the Salisbury attack in 2018.

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