Meadow will become a consultant on the film NTV Litvinenko – BBC Russian

• December 9, 2014

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Russian State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi, whom British authorities called the main suspect in the poisoning of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, will become a consultant “spy thriller” on NTV channel.

Thriller “lack of jurisdiction”, as they say in the film company “Central Partnership”, which received an order from NTV, will be based on the history of poisoning Litvinenko in London in November 2006 .

According to Lugovoi, the film will not be a direct retelling of the history of the poisoning.

“I immediately warned that the London event and polonium scandal, I will not comment, so the writers presented their version of history based on my many interviews and articles in the press, “- said Lugovoi.

The late businessman Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili, according to the creators, will also become characters in the film.

Former employee FSB of Russia Alexander Litvinenko, who fled in 2000 to the United Kingdom, died on 23 November 2006 in London.

After his death, the British government announced that doctors discovered the body Litvinenko significant amount of radioactive element polonium-210.

suspect in the “Litvinenko case” goes Andrei Lugovoi. British Crown Prosecution Service claims to have enough evidence to charge him with Litvinenko’s murder.

Lugovoi denied the charges in his address the charges, calling them politically motivated. Britain demanded that Russia extradite Lugovoi, but the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said that it contradicts the Russian constitution.