The times article I posted earlier has some pretty good background of Scaramella and Berezovsky.
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Friends of Litvinenko believe it is ludicrous to suspect Berezovsky of harming the man who once saved him from a possible assassination attempt. “Boris owes his life to Litvinenko and would never do anything to harm him,” said Oleg Gordievsky, another KGB defector and family friend.
Friends also dismissed suggestions that Litvinenko could have harmed himself. What would he have to gain, they ask. He loved his wife and son and wanted to continue his fight against Putin.
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Others point out that Litvinenko had made plenty of enemies beyond the Kremlin. In the late 1990s he had accused two of his bosses at the FSB of planning assassinations, and infuriated others with his claims about the FSB blowing up apartment blocks. He had also tangled with mafia gangs.
Andrei Soldatov, an expert on the Russian security services, said: “Litvinenko wasn’t an ordinary FSB agent. He worked in the department fighting organised crime. It’s a special group often accused of links with criminals.
“It’s a shadowy world. The people who poisoned him could easily have come from there.”
Had a former FSB agent, perhaps linked to Dignity and Honour, taken revenge for a personal grudge? Or is it even murkier still? Had Litvinenko been involved in some nefarious activity that caused him to suffer radiation poisoning?
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