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Maria Komarova

Former employee of the FSB Directorate for the Analysis and Suppression of the Activities of Criminal Organizations (URPO), Lieutenant Colonel Litvinenko, became scandalously famous after he publicly stated in 1999 that his superiors had ordered him and several other employees to kill the businessman Boris Berezovsky. His "spectacular" performance at a press conference in dark glasses, sitting at a table with the disgraced oligarch, is still fresh in memory.

An "Izvestia" correspondent managed to reach Litvinenko on his mobile phone at the moment when the former lieutenant colonel was climbing the stairs to a plane departing from Barcelona for London. To the question of what he was doing in Spain, Litvinenko did not answer and was generally reluctant to talk.

• "This information was received personally from Achimez Gochiyayev, personally from him," Alexander Valterovich shouted over the noise of the turbines. "These are his explanations regarding... uh... wait, let me phrase it correctly... So, this is information directly concerning the bombing of the houses in September 1999."
• "Does it confirm the version of the law enforcement agencies or Berezovsky's?"
• "All about that on July 25th."
• "But does this information clear him of the charges or prove them?"
• "Wait until July 25th."
• "Did you contact him by phone or meet in person?"
• "How we contacted him — that will also be on the 25th."
• "Are you sure that this information can fundamentally change, if not the course of the investigation, then at least public opinion in Russia?"
• "Finding the perpetrators of this crime and proving their guilt is the work of my whole life. And I will do it. And Gochiyayev — he is also interested in the investigation of this case."

In Russia, according to one of the members of the Public Commission for the Investigation of the Bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov, the content of Gochiyayev's speech is currently unknown to anyone. This seems true. At least Litvinenko's lawyer, Mikhail Marov, learned about his client's statement yesterday from an "Izvestia" correspondent. Yushenkov himself, when asked by our correspondent whether he was inclined to trust Gochiyayev, replied: "I generally try not to believe anyone. I believe in common sense and facts. If they are present in his speech — we'll see on the 25th. I can say one thing: most members of our commission do not share the version that the FSB took part in the apartment bombings. So they will question Litvinenko quite critically."

The FSB Public Relations Center (TsOS) refused to comment on Litvinenko's statement. Sources in the FSB at "Izvestia" agreed to evaluate the initiative of their former colleague anonymously. "Litvinenko is simply a mentally ill person, a paranoiac," the source believes. "What else can be said about a person who recorded his wife, colleagues, friends, and the general he reported to on a voice recorder, and went to his superiors with reports on some mythical cases? When people started leaving the agencies in the early nineties, they recruited just anyone."