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KGB ex-agent: Russia may be behind Litvinenko murder Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian secret service whistleblower released on Friday after a prison term for revealing secrets said he had evidence pointing to Moscow's involvement in the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko. Former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Mikhail Trepashkin told Reuters an FSB official told him in 2002 a group was being set up to "take out" Litvinenko. An FSB spokesman declined to comment on Trepashkin's allegation. Russian officials have said claims of Moscow's involvement in Litvinenko's death are nonsense and that the case is being used by Moscow's enemies to discredit it.
Litvinenko, also a former FSB officer and whistleblower, died in London just over a year ago after being poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope, polonium 210. After moving to Britain Litvinenko was an associate of Boris Berezovsky, a tycoon who left Russia and has become a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I had a meeting with an FSB officer in August 2002 who said there had been a very serious group formed that would wipe out all those linked with Berezovsky and Litvinenko and take them out too," Trepashkin, 50, told Reuters by telephone hours after being released from a Ural mountains prison. "It is clear that this group was made up of employees and agents of the FSB. The FSB are people who only work on the orders of those higher up," he said. "The theory that the FSB was behind it should be investigated." Trepashkin was jailed in 2004 by a military court for disclosing classified information. He said the case was fabricated as revenge for his whistle-blowing.
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