12-02-2006, 05:32 PM
<b>Report: Dead Former Spy Had Russian Oil Secrets</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LONDON â A dossier drawn up by Alexander Litvinenko on the Kremlin's takeover of the worldâs richest energy giant will be given to Scotland Yard today as police investigate the former KGB spy's secret dealings with some of Russia's richest men.
It emerged yesterday that Litvinenko travelled to Israel just weeks before he died to hand over evidence to a Russian billionaire of how agents working for President Putin dealt with his enemies running the Yukos oil company.
<b>He passed this information to Leonid Nevzlin, the former second-in-command of Yukos, who fled to Tel Aviv in fear for his life after the Kremlin seized and then sold off the $40 billion company.</b>
<b>Nevzlin told The Times that it was his âdutyâ to pass on the file. âAlexander had information on crimes committed with the Russian Governmentâs direct participation,â</b> he said.
â<b>He only recently gave me and my attorneys documents that shed light on the most significant aspects of the Yukos affair.â</b>
Investigators have told The Times that Litvinenko had apparently uncovered âstartlingâ new material about the Yukos affair and what happened to those opposing the forced break-up of the company
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Boris Berezovsky, the exiled oligarch, who employed Litvinenko and who has accused the Kremlin of having a hand in his poisoning, is also reported to have been tested.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It emerged yesterday that Litvinenko travelled to Israel just weeks before he died to hand over evidence to a Russian billionaire of how agents working for President Putin dealt with his enemies running the Yukos oil company.
<b>He passed this information to Leonid Nevzlin, the former second-in-command of Yukos, who fled to Tel Aviv in fear for his life after the Kremlin seized and then sold off the $40 billion company.</b>
<b>Nevzlin told The Times that it was his âdutyâ to pass on the file. âAlexander had information on crimes committed with the Russian Governmentâs direct participation,â</b> he said.
â<b>He only recently gave me and my attorneys documents that shed light on the most significant aspects of the Yukos affair.â</b>
Investigators have told The Times that Litvinenko had apparently uncovered âstartlingâ new material about the Yukos affair and what happened to those opposing the forced break-up of the company
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Boris Berezovsky, the exiled oligarch, who employed Litvinenko and who has accused the Kremlin of having a hand in his poisoning, is also reported to have been tested.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->