He is said to have died from complications from the coronavirus.

Businessman Dmitry Kovtun died in Moscow, whom the British authorities suspected of being involved in the poisoning in London in 2006 of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko , who had previously fled Russia and received asylum in the UK.

The death of 57-year-old Kovtun was confirmed by his friend and the main suspect in the radioactive polonium poisoning case, Andrey Lugovoy, also a former FSB officer and now a State Duma deputy from the LDPR, BBC reports .

According to Lugovoy, Kovtun died as a result of a serious illness associated with a coronavirus infection.

According to RosSMI, Kovtun died in a Moscow hospital.

Poisoning of Litvinenko in London

Former KGB and FSB officer Litvinenko died in London in 2006, six years after fleeing Russia for the UK due to a conflict with Russian intelligence services.

Litvinenko claimed that FSB officers were involved in a series of explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999 (as a result of three explosions, more than 300 people died, more than 1,700 were injured), about which he wrote the book “FSB blows up Russia” ( included in the Russian Federal List of Extremist Materials).

(C)UNIAN 2022