“All the signs indicated the Russian government, or at least the FSB - since only they had motivation, and the means of attempt, and the opportunity to commit murder”

Georgy Markov and Alexander Litvinenko

A fragment of the book of British forensic experts by Stephen Kolra, Pyu Moore and David Owen “Has it yourself or helped? As the forensic scientists revealed 50 “ideal“ murders ” (entering the publisher of Alpine Plisher ) talks about two deadly poisoning organized by the KGB (by the hands of the special services of socialist Bulgaria) and the FSB in the UK.

In 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgy Markov was poisoned in London Ricin (apparently, with the help of a wind pistol hidden in the killer’s umbrella), and in 2006, the murder was the radioactive Polonium, which the FSB agents added to the emigrant (and the former special services employee) Alexander Litvinenko.

Both crimes, of course, can only be called “ideal” murders: in both cases, the investigation managed to establish the motives of criminals and the violent nature of the death of the dead (although the organizers of the assassination, apparently, planned to staging natural death from a sudden illness), but in either case the performers were still held accountable (although in Litvinenko the Litvinenko was established with the undoubted case reliability).

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