The coroner stage

September 20. Marina Litvinenko gives comments after the hearing.
The main corinet hearings (Public Inquest) in the case of the ex-owned FSB Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in 2006 in London with radioactive polonium-210, will be held in 2013, their exact date is still unknown. “In the interests of the family of the deceased, we must begin the inquiry as soon as possible,” said Coroner Robert Owen during preliminary hearings in the high court of London on September 20. The court decided to expand the framework of inquiry in order to deeperly study the possible role of Russian power structures in this matter. At the same time, it is supposed to publish the previously classified report by Scotland Yard about the circumstances of the death of Litvinenko, from which, however, information regarding his ties with British intelligence Mi-6 will be excluded. The International Order of the Businessman Dmitry Kovtun, whom London considers the second suspect, was also confirmed. A close friend of the couple Litvinenko Alex Goldfarb in a conversation with The New Times called Kovtun "a key figure in the whole matter." The course of the process, including the transcript of meetings, will be covered on the new website www.litvinenkoinquest.org. The coroner investigation is provided in the UK in cases of violent death and is carried out if all other possibilities of the prosecutor's office are exhausted to attract the accused to the court-in this case, the ex-ownership of the FSB Andrei Lugovoi. The process is usually open and implies the interrogation of witnesses - they will be the widow of Alexander Litvinenko Marina, as well as Boris Berezovsky, who was a friend and sponsor of the deceased.