Biography of Kovtun Dmitry

Do you want to see only good news? Return to ordinary tape? Lentapedia Kovtun, Dmitry Russian businessman, witness in the case of Alexander Litvinenko’s poisoning Russian businessman, business partner of the former security service of the ORT television company Andrei Lugovoi, according to some reports, is a former employee of the special services. As it turned out in May, the British prosecutor's office considered the main suspect in Litvinenko Luovo, and the Media Kovtun called the probable accomplice.

In February, the UK authorities declared Kovtun on an international wanted list on the murder of Litvinenko. Dmitry Kovtun, the British newspaper The Times, originally called him a carpet [31] was born in a family of hereditary military. At the end of the school, at the beginning of the 10ths, he entered the Moscow team school named after the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, which was considered one of the best in the country in those years.

In the same years, Andrei Lugovoi studied at the school, who lived in the same house with Kovtun [26]. In the year, Kovtun graduated from the school. He was sent to serve in Czechoslovakia, then to Germany. He lived in this country for 12 years, was engaged in business, became a business partner of the meadow [32], [26]. Initially, the Italian Mario Skramell was suspected of committing this crime, who met with Litvinenko on November 1.

It was reported that the Italian was supposed to deliver Litvinenko information about the organizers of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya [40], [41], [38], [36], [37], [35], [39]. Litvinenko could not talk about the meeting in more detail [33], [34]. On the evening of November 23, Litvinenko died in the London clinic University College Hospital [27], [28], [29], [30].

The third participant in the meeting, according to Lugovoi, was his business partner Dmitry Kovtun, and not the mysterious “Vladimir”. Lugovoi insisted that they are not involved in the poisoning of Litvinenko. In addition, according to Lugovoi, their meeting took place after the former special services employee met with Scramell. Lugovoi added that he intends to cooperate with Scotland Yard, investigating the poisoning of the former Russian dissident [31].

On the same day, Kovtun and Lugovoi outlined the same version of events on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow. Businessmen said Kovtun met Litvinenko on October 16 and never seemed to him "Vladimir". Kovtun also said that he was engaged in consulting, helping Western companies enter the Russian market. He argued that Litvinenko was interesting to him precisely as a person who had contacts with solid British companies that sought to work in Russia [32].

The same Lugovoi reported on November 27 in an interview with the daily newspaper Moscow Komsomolets [26]. Lugovoi, according to his lawyer Andrei Romashov, was not interrogated [25]. On the same day, lawyer Romashov denied these messages, calling them a provocation. He stated that Kovtun feels normally [23]. In addition, on December 7, the Prosecutor General of Russia opened a criminal case on the fact of an attempt to kill Kovtun and the murder of Litvinenko.

The audit conducted by the prosecutor’s office confirmed that Kovtun had a disease, also associated with poisoning with radioactive nuclide. The investigation in the case began the Office for the investigation of especially important cases of the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia [20]. On the same day, Litvinenko was buried in the Haiga cemetery of London. According to the British press, entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky and former representative of Chechen separatists Ahmed Zakaev, with whom Litvinenko maintained contacts [21], [18], [22], arrived at the funeral.

The source confirmed that after the interrogation, Kovtun for a short time fell into a coma [19]. The businessman was suspected that he illegally brought radioactive materials into Germany. Formally, the Kovtun case was not related to the investigation of the death of Litvinenko, but the day earlier, representatives of the German law enforcement agencies confirmed that traces of Polonia were discovered in the house of the ex -wife of Kovtun in Hamburg, while Kovtun flew from Hamburg to London, there were no traces of radiation [16], [17].

Nevertheless, according to journalists, they were going to close the case before the court, since they did not have to count on the extradition of the suspects from Russia [13]. This was the first appearance of Kovtun in public after hospitalization he had passed: earlier he found symptoms of radiation irradiation, but the exact data on his state of health were not published.

Now, journalists noticed that Kovtun lost and bald. This suggested that he received a significant dose of radiation [12]. In May, the British prosecutor’s office accused Lutvinko Luvoy’s poisoning [11] and officially asked Russia about his extradition [10]. The British embassy in Moscow refuted this information [9]. In August, Kovtun was deprived of a residence permit in Germany [7].He continued to deny his guilt, and in November he even stated that Litvinenko could die as a result of an accident [6].

A year later, in November, Kovtun announced his readiness to visit London and answer questions from the British investigator, but set a condition for this the presence of guarantees that he would not be extradited to Germany [5]. In November, it became known that the German prosecutor's office closed the criminal case against Kovtun on suspicion of illegal circulation of radioactive substances [4].

In March, the media, citing Russian law enforcement agencies, reported that the UK authorities were issued an order for the international wanted list of Kovtun in the Litvinenko murder case [1]. According to Kovtun himself, a request for its extradition was received by Russia in February of the same year [3], [2]. Kovtun is divorced [32], has Russian citizenship [20], and is conducting business in Russia [32].

According to the Russian Newsweek magazine, Kovtun, like Lugovoi and his other business partner Vyacheslav Sokolenko, was once an employee of the Russian special services [14]. Kovtun himself denied this information. He said that he only studied at the same military academy as Lugovoi, but did not serve in the FSB [15].

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