German TV: Litvienko Killed For Investigating Ties Between Putin And Tambov OCG

Former FSB officer Alexander Litvienko was investigating ties between Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the Tambov OCG Gennady Petrov and Vladimir Kumarin.

In the lead-up to the promulgation of the decision of the London court on the recent hearings of the Litvinenko case, German state broadcaster ZDF showed a documentary about its own investigation of the murder.

Radio Echo of Moscow was informed on that by Alexander Goldfarb, the head of Litvinenko Justice Foundation in London.

The main conclusion: Alexander Litvinenko was killed for investigating ties between Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the Tambov OCG Gennady Petrov and Vladimir Kumarin which he was carrying out while working for the Security Service of Great Britain and Spain. For the first time the documentary shows an interview of the investigating officer Jose Grinda — the author of the indictment in the case of the Russian mafia in Spain which has been recently presented to the Spanish court. The documentary also contains new footage made by Litvienko himself and an interview with Dmitri Kovtun, one of the alleged perpetrators of the murder.

Authors of the film tell about their visit to St. Petersburg, where the Tambov Gang prospered in the times when Putin was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. It is alleged that it was then when his ties with the members of the Tambov Gang were established. Among other things, the film crew visited the former Ozero Dacha Cooperative, where Putin and his inner circle had neighbored with the leaders of the Tambov criminal group.

For the first time the documentary shows the video footage from the hospital ward the day before the death of Litvinenko

It is to be recalled that Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB officer, died on November 23, 2006 in the University College Hospital in London after being poisoned with the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which was administered, the British Security Service believe, in a cup of tea drunken by Litvienko during his meeting with the former FSB officers Andrei Lugovoy (now a State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party) and Dmitri Kovtun.