Russian MP Refuses to Participate in UK-Based Litvinenko Inquest

Ex-security service officer Andrei Lugovoy, who is now a State Duma lawmaker, will not take part in the UK-based inquest into Alexander Litvinenko’s mysterious death. “I am quitting the coroner's inquest, I will not participate in it any longer,” Lugovoy has told a press conference held in Moscow on Tuesday, adding that he made the decision after the Foreign Office insisted on some of the case records to be classified. Litvinenko, a former KGB agent, fled to the UK in 2000. He died in 2006 shortly after meeting with Lugovoy in London's Millennium Hotel. It was announced soon afterwards that Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium-210 which was found in his body. UK officials claimed that they had sufficient evidence to charge Lugovoy with murdering the former intelligence officer.

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