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Litvinenko Case: UK Inquiry Says Putin Probably Approved Ex-Spy's MurderCNNJan. 21, 2016 |
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 London (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the operation by Russian officials to kill former FSB spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a detailed UK inquiry has concluded. Retired High Court Judge Robert Owen, who conducted the inquiry, wrote that he was "sure" that two former Russian officials poisoned the 44-year-old at a London hotel with highly radioactive polonium-210. And Owen wrote that he was also "sure" that the two men who poisoned Litvinenko -- former KGB and FSB employee Andrei Lugovoi and former Russian army officer Dmitri Kovtun -- were acting on behalf of others, probably the Russian spy service, the FSB. "The FSB operation to kill Mr. Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr. Patrushev and also by President Putin," Owen wrote. Nikolai Patrushev was head of the FSB in 2006. Read More 
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