Witnesses in the case of Litvinenko will be guarded by investigators from Russia

Armed security will be assigned to witnesses in the Litvinenko case - a special forces guarding the Prime Minister and members of the Great Britain, the British newspaper Telegraph writes on Sunday.

It is reported that this security measure is necessary "to protect witnesses from a possible threat to their life by Russian investigators."

Representatives of Russia plan to interrogate about 100 witnesses in the Litvinenko case in the UK. A number of them, including Boris Berezovsky, are “afraid to be abducted or even killed by Russian“ punitive detachments ”working under the guise of the investigation,” the publication notes.

"Every witness who can threaten the danger will be provided with a proper level of protection," the senior inspector of the security department, whose name is not called, told the newspaper. According to him, Russian investigators "will be given complete freedom of movement and interrogation" if this does not threaten the life and health of witnesses.

Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer of the Russian Federation, who fled to the UK in 2000 and received a British passport in October this year, died on November 23 at the University College of London. Specialists of the British Health Protection Agency found traces of the Radioactive element of the Polonium-210 in his body, which were then also found in places that Litvinenko visited, in particular, in the ITSU restaurant and Millennium restaurant in the center of London, as well as in his house in the Mazwell-Hill region in the north of the British capital.

The death of Litvinenko is investigated by the anti-terrorist unit of Scotland Yard and the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.