Mm; G?idfarh Firm Siaiemem. May 2&3 3N Tim MATTER OF AN ENQUEST TOUGHING THE IBEATH ?31? ALEXANBER LETVENENKO "nanny 0? 1, Alex Guidfafb, of 1. My persgnal background is; set out in paragraphs 1 and :2 uf 11m statcmant 1 gave. in Kim Be-rezavs?ky Rim-fan Teievisian Radio. Broadcasting Company. 42': Am;- pmceedings. dated 22- October 2009, hereafter as ?Tctluk ("we axhibif: 2. My involvement with Mr Boris Berazovsky (?Bemzovsky') and my directors-hip of Intemationa} Foundatim: for Civil Mbmics (TRIM) are described in detail in paragraphs 39 and. 1344 of tha'rarluk 3? I gavzz a statemsm t0 the Metmpoliitan Police: Service on 27 November 2006 (imitanm. referred hemaftar as ?P?olicc W82 Tm: statement was provided to. the MP5 as. part. of their investigation into Mr Almamder Litvimnko?g, death. In ?mstatamcnt dascribc my miationship with Mr Liivimnko, hereafter as ?Sasha', incitsding thc: circumstances of his dapmture Russia, hia activities- during,- his. life: in Inndm, and ma. events related to his death Enc?uciing some uf the: 1153:3852 in ms: proviaimml list (if issues which 1 mm to address in she 1mm pm of this statement, Ham 3.: My ka?m?ige 9f mad in Mr Li?v?nmka?s Emma Rusm and. material its the: 1%?er Swimmer Nuvcmiser 2W: OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 2 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 4. I have provided an account of these events in my Police WS. Nonetheless, I wish to add a few clarifying details as part of this statement. 5. I got involved in the Litvinenko case at the request of Berezovsky who called me in New York on or about 25 October 2000 and asked to go to Turkey to accompany Sasha to the US Embassy there. Prior to my departure to Turkey on or about 27 October 2000, I spoke to Mark Medish, a senior staff member of the US National Security Council and to Thomas R. Pickering, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, to inform them that I would be taking Sasha to the embassy in Ankara. They both discouraged me from getting involved. I also spoke to Berezovsky, his associate Badri Patarkatsishvili (?Badri?) in Tbilisi, and Yuri Felshtinsky who was with the Litvinenko family in Antalya We discussed the logistics of the operation. I also arranged for two American lawyers to come to Turkey to give us legal advice and assistance as necessary. 6. When I arrived in Antalya on 28 October 2000. Sasha and his family, his wife Marina and son Anatoly, had already checked in a hotel. They were accompanied by a Georgian man, who, I understood, was an associate of Badri and who had traveled with Sasha to Turkey from Georgia. By then Felshtinsky had already left. The Georgian man left as soon as Iarrived. 7. Sasha told me that on the way to Turkey he had a stopover in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he had a meeting with a British of?cial, who he believed was associated with M6. The meeting was arranged by Felshtinsky using contacts with Russian defectors in the UK, Oleg Gordievsky and/or Viktor Suvorov. The meeting took place outside of the British Embassy in Tbilisi. Sasha said that the British told him that they were not interested in him and would not be able to help. 8. Sasha had a Georgian passport made up in the name of Grigoriev, as far as I can recall. The pa53port bore his photograph. Sasha told me that the passport had been obtained by Badri in Tbilisi. OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 3 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 9. We all drove to Ankara in a rented car, and checked in a hotel. The following morning an American lawyer took Sasha?s deposition and then I accompanied Sasha to the US Embassy for a prearranged meeting, which, I believe, took place on 30 October 2000. We were met by consular of?cials, after which the CIA interviewed Sasha in a secure setting. I was not present during the interview, but later understood from Sasha that there was a videoconference with the CIA headquarters. My understanding was that Sasha could not provide them with any valuable information except for one item related to the illicit transfer of an American weapon system to his former boss General Khokholkov. That Weapon had been used by the FSB to assassinate Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev in 1996. Later that night I collected Sasha at the embassy and brought him to the hotel. That same night we drove to Istanbul, since we did not feel secure in Ankara We checked into a hotel in Istanbul on 3] October 2000. 10. In the morning of 1 November 2000 I received a phone call from the US Embassy in Ankara informing us that the Americans were not interested in Sasha, and that we were on our own. That afternoon we took a connecting ?ight to Tbilisi through London. Sasha claimed asylum on arrival at Heathrow. I helped him to get in contact with George Menzies, his solicitor in the UK. The following morning I was removed from the UK for facilitating the entry of an asylum applicant (or a similar immigration offence), and was banned from visiting the UK for nearly a year. . I was not paid for my role in bringing the Litvinenko family to the UK. However, travel, accommodation, legal and other associated costs in the amount of were fully paid by Berezovsky. I attach my ?nancial statement to him dated 24 November 2000 (exhibit 2). Issue 2: Details of Mr Litvinenko?s medical treatment in November 2006 and the attempts to diagnose the cause of his illness, including the assistance provided by OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 4 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 Professor John Henry, Professor Sebastian Lucas and any other medical professionals from whom he requested assistance: 12. 13. 14. In my Police WS [presented recollections of my interactions with Professor John Henry following Sasha?s transfer to UCH on 17 November 2006. I wish to add that at some point after examining Sasha on 18 or 19 November 2006 Professor Henry told me that Sasha?s were not consistent with thallium poisoning. Thallium poisoning was the going theory proposed by attending physicians who gave Sasha Prussian Blue as an antidote. Professor Henry had reason to doubt the thallium theory because when he had shaken Sasha?s hand there were no signs of muscular weakness associated with thallium poisoning. I believe that it was on 19 or 20 November 2006 that Professor Henry came up with the idea of radioactive poisoning, which was consistent with most of Sasha?s He mentioned that it could have been a radioactive isotOpe of thallium. But from the conversation with Sasha?s doctors he learned that Sasha had been tested for radioactivity and the results were negative, and that he had no history of being in the vicinity of a radiation source. That seemed to puzzle to him. Professor Henry called me the next day with a suggestion that the radioactive poison could have been an alpha-emitter, which would explain why it could not be detected by the standard hospital and police equipment geared to detect gamma radiation. The following morning, on or around 21 November 2006, he tried to discuss this theory with the attending physicians. He then told me that Sasha?s doctors were not interested. because Sasha?s status had deteriorated and they were more concerned with the life threatening ymptoms, such as possible heart failure than in the original cause of his illness. I suggested that Professor Henry should talk to the police to convey his alpha-emitter theory. Later on PO Brent Hyatt told me that it was Professor Henry who convinced him to send Sasha?s urine samples for alpha?radioactivity testing to the nuclear lab where Po-210 was discovered. OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 5 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 15. 16. 17. I have never met ProfesSOr Lucas, although I knew of his involvement at the postmortem stage from George Menzies. I am not aware of his ?ndings. In paragraph 25 of my Terluk WS I mentioned that during my conversation with Sasha at Barnet Hospital on 15 November 2006, he mentioned that he suspected Andrey Lugovoy of poisoning him for the ?rst time. He did not give me much detail and asked me not to make his suspicion public because he wanted to lure Lugovoy back to London. To this end he wanted to focus public attention solely on the ?gure of Mario Scaramella. At the time I was not yet certain that Sasha was poisoned in the first place, since the doctors would not con?rm it. For that reason I did not pay much attention to the Scararnella~Lugovoy issue. However, after the poisoning had been con?rmed, I remember mentioning Lugovoy to PO Brent Hyatt, who was in charge of the investigation this was probably on 18 or 19 November 2006 when Sasha was at UCH. PO Hyatt said that he knew about it. At that point I also spoke about Lugovoy with Berezovsky who said that Sasha had shared his plan to downplay Lugovoy?s role with him and Akhmed Zakayev, when they visited him at Barnet. In my Police WS, I mentioned Lugovoy only in the context of my second more detailed conversation with Sasha, which took place on 19 or 20 November 2006, when he told me about the circumstances of meeting with Lugovoy and his associates in the Millennium Hotel. Issue 3: Information about how Mr Litvinenko?s poisoning came to be publicized, including how the photograph of Mr Litvinenko in a hospital bed came to be taken and published: 18. I became involved in handling publicity aspects of Sasha's illness at his request, after I visited him at Barnet Hospital on 15 November 2006. He was adamant that he wanted the world to know that he had been poisoned. At the time it was a nearly impossible task since the doctors would not con?rm poisoning or alert the police to the same. OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 6 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 IV, 19. I remember speaking to Lord Bell's assistant Jennifer Morgan about getting the press interested, and I helped convince the Sunday Times journalist David Leppard to interview Sasha at the hospital, on the understanding that the article would not be published unless there was a con?rmation of the poisoning diagnosis by the doctors. Leppard interviewed Sasha at Barnet Hospital in Marina?s presence in the afternoon of Thursday, 16 November 2006. I interpreted at the interview. 20. On the night of Friday, 17 November 2006, the hospital con?rmed the poisoning 21. 22. diagnosis. I relayed the information to Leppard. The Sunday Times broke the story on the evening of 18 November 2006, by which time Sasha has already been transferred to UCH. On the morning of Sunday, [9 November 2006 the press camped out in front of UCH. Sasha took a keen interest in how his illness was being reported. It should be noted that from'16 to 19 November-2006 he was in a relatively good state, reflecting the standard course development of radiation sickness. I told him that if he wanted people to know what was happening with him, the best way would be to show them by taking a photograph of him in his condition. He agreed despite Marina?s objections. I then called Jennifer Morgan and asked her to send a photographer to the hospital. I believe Sasha signed a consent form required by the hospital. I was not present during the photoshoot. Jennifer released the photos to the media Sasha?s condition began to deteriorate on 20 November 2006. I believe it was on 21 November 2006, while Sasha was still conscious, that he and Marina agreed to let the ?lmmaker Andrey Nekrasov to make a short video, which would not be released without Marina?s express consent. OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 7 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 23. Much of my contacts with the media until Sasha?s death and immediately afterwards involved fending off reporters? requests to interview Marina. Issue 4: The immediate circumstances of Mr Litvinenko?s death, including my knowledge of preparation of his ?nal statement: 24. 25. 26. 27. It was probably on [9 or 20 November 2006, after I had spoken to the doctors at UCH and Professor Henry, when Sasha asked me about his survival chances. I said that the major concern was the total collapse of his immune system, and that] would give him a 50/50 chance, maybe even more considering him being physically very strong. At this point he asked me to draft a statement to be released in case he died. He expressly asked to lay the blame for his condition on Putin, and to note that his death would not be in vain. No one was present during this conversation. I gave the gist of Sasha?s remarks to George Menzies - I do not remember whether this was done over the phone or in person who then drafted and printed the text of the statement in English. He brought the statement to the hospital November 2006. But Sasha could not see him because he was busy dealing with the police or the dOCtors. The next morning on the way to the hospital Menzies and I stopped off at Lord Bell?s of?ce to show him the text of Sasha?s statement as a matter of courtesy. Sasha signed the statement on 21 November 2006 in the presence of Marina, Menzies and myself after I translated the English text for him into Russian. At this point I should explain the inconsistencies surrounding the events leading to Sasha?s ??nal statement?. There are at least two factual discrepancies between my account given in my Police WS on 27 November 2006 and in Terluk WS of 22 October 2009. in paragraph 29 of the Terluk WS I said that Sasha had dictated his statement "on the day before his death?. The timing is obviously wrong because the statement was signed and dated on 21 November 2006, two OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 8 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 28. days before Sasha's death. This is well documented. Secondly, as opposed to the Police W8, I did not identify George Menzies as the author of the English draft statement in the Terluk WS. Instead. I said that I was the person who ?prepared the English version of the text.? At some point before the publication of ?Death of a Dissident? George asked me to downplay his role in drafting Sasha?s death bed statement. I should say that this was done out of safety considerations rather than anyone?s desire to conceal the true facts. Idid not mention George in this context in the book and described the events surrounding Sasha?s death bed statement only in general terms. When it came to drafting my statement for the Terluk proceedings three years later, I had forgotten much of the details and only had the book as my aide-m?moire. I was not provided with a copy of the Police WS that could jog my memory. I now con?rm that the account given by me to the police in 2006 is accurate. I wish to add that I had no knowledge about Sasha?s alleged conversion to Islam until after his death. I do know, however, that he was not an adherent of any religion, but at the same time were a Russian Orthodox cross around his neck as a sign of cultural identi?cation. I think that his conversion was an act of solidarity with Akhmed Zakayev who was perhaps his closest friend during the last year of his life. Issue 5: An account of my interaction with Alexander Potemkin and my knowledge of documents produced by this witness purporting to relate to the carriage of polonium in Russia: 29. My dealings with Alexei (not Alexander) Poternkin are described in my of?cial written statement to the police taken in November ID at Belgravia police station. The police did not provide me with a copy of is statement. In addition, I kept contemporaneous notes of my contacts with him? which I updated from time to time (this was last done in August 2012). I attach urge notes and also copies of all documents provided by Potemkin (exhibit 3 and attachments). OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 9 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 30. In addition, I attach screenshots of my Skype text chat with Potemkin?s friend who called himself Colonel Sergei Ploshkin, who said that he was the original source of the documents (exhibit 4). I never saw Ploshkin or heard his voice; this chat was my only contact with him. 31.1 kept in contact with Potemkin until recently with regard to two matters: (1) facilitation of his meeting with the MPS, which he told me eventually took place recently and (2) facilitation of his interactions with The Times journalist Deborah Haynes who was interested in his story. 32. During these contacts he noti?ed me that he was recently convicted by an Austrian court of fraud and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. His appeal is pending. The matter, according to Potemkin, relates to some ?nancial dealing with third parties in Russia, which, he claimed, were fabricated by the FSB in order to discredit his evidence in the Litvinenko case. The fraud case, he told me, was under investigation since 2010. 33. While I felt obliged to report Potemkin?s story to the police, I am of two minds about his credibility. On the one hand, his story is too sophisticated, elaborate and detailed to be a simpleminded hoax. On a more personal level, he left a positive impressiOn. both on me and on two seasoned joumalists that I brought to interview him. On the other hand, there are inconsistencies in his story, which he could never explain, and the dOCurnents that he provided, raised many questions. With the revelation of the Austrian fraud case, I became even more doubtful whether Poternkin should be believed. I defer the ?nal judgment to the police. Issue 6: My knowledge about the publication, includin their distribution in Russia, of Mr Litvinenko?s books, ?Blowing Up Russia? and th ?Gang from Lubyanka? and details about the film of the former, sponsored by Bor erezovsky, ?Assassination of Russia?: OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 10 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 35. 36. 37. 38. 34. With regard to the books ?Blowing Up Russia' and ?The Gang from Lubyanka?, the circumstances of their writing and distribution in Russia are described below. The ?lm ?Assassination of Russia? was produced by two French ?lmmakers, who initially worked on an assignment with the NTV network in Russia. However, after NTV was taken over by the Russian state in the summer of 2000, the project was suspended. Then in early 2001, the French directOrs approached Berezovsky for funding. Berezovsky provided funding and aSSigned Felshtinsky and Sasha to work with the French ?lmmakers. The film is loosely based on ?Blowing up Russia?. The ?lm was presented to the international media 0n 5 March 2002 in London. Sasha spoke at the press conference and his name and credentials as the former FSB of?cer became a major element in the promotion campaign for the ?lm, as follows. Sergey Yushenkov, a liberal member of the State Duma (Russian Parliament), attended the press conference where he met Sasha. Yushenkov took it upon himself to organize the distribution of the ?lm in Russia. After returning to Moscow Yushenkov founded a Public Commission to investigate the apartment bombings and the Ryazan incident (exhibit 5). As described below, Sasha took an active role in the Commission?s activities. In 2002-3 the supporters of the ?Liberal Russia? party, which Berezovsky co?chaired with Yushenkov, distributed thousands of copies of the ?lm throughout Russia and staged several public screenings. I In April 2002, IFCL Sponsored a visit of Yuslhenkov to Washington, where he showed ?Assassination of Russia? to of?cials at he State Department and the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Yushenkov also screened the ?lm publicly at Kennan Institute, a prominent political think tank, as well as at Harvard and Columbia Universities. distributed thousands of DVDs of 10 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 11 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 39. ?Assassination of Russia? to members of US Congress, Parliaments in Europe and the media. Sasha?s name as a former FSB of?cer associated with the ?lm was instrumental in all of these endeavours. The ?lm was widely reviewed both in Russia and abroad and had a profound political impacr. For example, in a review published on 22 April 2002 and entitled ?Explosive Allegations: a French Documentary Alleges Kremlin involvement in Russia's 1999 apartment bombings? Time Europe noted: ?This week, VTSIOM (the Public Opinion Studies Center) released its polls on public reaction to [the allegations]. The results show that 38% of those polled ?rmly deny that Russian secret services could be involved; 6% as ?rmly believe they were; 37% believe that, though not proven, such an involvement should not be ruled out; and 19% are undecided" .Yushenkov intended to make the apartment bombings a key issue of ?Liberal Russia??s Duma election campaign in the autumn of 2003. However, Yushenkov was assassinated in Moscow on 17Apn'l 2003. Eight weeks later, another member of the Public Commission on the bombings, the Duma Deputy Yuri Schekochihin died under suspicious circumstances, apparently poisoned. After that, the Public Commission stopped functioning. With Yushenkov dead, and Berezovsky exiled, the Liberal Russia party also stopped functioning. At this point the distribution of the ?lm in Russia effectively came to an end. Issue 7 Any other information I can provide touching upon the matters set out in the provisional list of issues (using the same numbering as in the list): Issues Berezovsky 41. A1(b) and A1(c): Career in and. Relationship with Boris Sasha told me that his and his colleagues? dmisicry/approach Berezovsky on 20 March 1998 with a complaint about illegal acti? in their division, URPO, was not politically motivated. They merely sought a powerful and well-connected ally 11 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 12 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 42. to help them resolve a con?ict with their superior General Evgeny Khokholkov. Sasha told me that Berezovsky brought their complaint to the attention of Presidential administration, which resulted in the dismissal of then FSB chief and appointment of Putin as the FSB Director on 25 July 1998. Sasha believed that Putin owed his appointment to him. Sasha told me that his only meeting with Putin took place immediately after that. At the meeting Sasha gave Putin a chart detailing corruption in the FSB and links of of?cials with organized crime. He recalled that Putin did not take notice of the provided information and refused to act on the report. Sasha believed that Putin?s animosity towards him started after this meeting. 43. Sasha always emphasized that their decision to go public and stage a televised press?conference on 17 November 1998 was "a self?defence measure? in response to the FSB putting pressure on his team, which, he believed, was done on Putin?s personal orders. .These and other relevant aspects Sasha described in his book ?The Gang from Lubyanlra?, which [helped him write, and in the article ?The Uzbek File? written in 2002 (exhibit 6). The article was intended for an English language neWSpaper, but it was never published. In this article he speci?cally mentioned his sources of information related to the allege corruption of Putin during his tenure in St. Petersburg City Hall, namely Ge;eral Anatoly Tro?mov, General Ivan Mironov and an agent by the name of 1d Dvali. Issue A303): Work for Boris Berezovsky 45. To my knowledge Sasha was never empIOyed by Berezovsky after his arrival in London- However, through Berezovsky ?nanced his activities during the ?rst four years in the UK, which was the principal source of his income. In addition, Berezovsky paid for his housing and the schooling of Sasha?s son, Anatoly. 12 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 13 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 48- 49. 46. With IFCL ?nancing, Sasha played the central role in the investigation of apartment bombings in Russia in 1999, which he believ were orchestrated by the FSB in order to provoke the Second Chechen War. i?describe this work in paragraphs 10-12 of my Terluk WS. In addition, in April 200l, Sasha took a trip to Georgia together with Felshtinsky where they were supposed to meet an informant on the case. They had to abort their mission when their security was compromised and their driver was killed. . Sasha werked closely with the Public Commission on the apartment bombings established by the Russian MP Sergey Yushenkov (see above). Sasha persuaded his friend, former FSB of?cer Mikhail Trepashkin to assist the Yushenkov Commission. On 25 July 2002 Sasha participated in a public videoconference with the Yushenkov Commission in Moscow, in which he reported his ?ndings related to the bombings. Later that year, members of the commission visited London to interview Sasha. After Yushenkov was assassinated and Trepashkin arrested in 2003, this line of work became less active. Sasha expended a lot of effort, working with me, in setting up and maintaining the site (English version detailing the investigation of the apartment bombings. With IFCL financing, Sasha was involved in the projeCt dedicated to deciphering the Kuchma tapes. The tapes contained secret recordings made by Nikolai Melnichenko, the former bodyguard of the Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma in Kuchma?s of?ce in 2000. Melnichenko later ?ed to the USA and made some of his recordings public, documenting illicit Ukrainian arms sales to Iraq and the murder of an opposition journalist allegedly on Kuchma?s orders. The tapes were authenticated by US experts 5/3197/special-report-kuc hma- This led to a series of political scandals, the 13 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 14 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 50. 51. suspension of US economic aid to Ukraine and eventually to (i?nge Revolution of 2004. In addition to what was initially disclosed publicly, the tapes contained hundreds of hours of poorly legible recordings in Ukrainian. Melnichenko provided the recordings which Yuri Shvets, working in Washington (under contract with IFCL (exhibit transcribed, analysed the content and put some of it up on the Internet. Sasha along with Felshtinsky played the central role, working on behalf of both with Shvets and Melnichenko. He became friendly with both of them, and they had discussions. Melnichenko stayed at Sasha?s home when he visited London. Sasha?s task was to review the material with regard to matters relevant to Russia. At some point in 2002 Sasha informed me that they discovered a conversation on the tapes, which was highly damaging to Putin. The conversation between Kuchma and Leonid Derkach, the chief of Ukrainian security service, took place on 2 June 2000 and concerned SPAG, a German company with mob ties operating in St. Petersburg. Putin was closely connected with SPAG. The matter was made known to the press, I believe by Shvets, which led to a series of publications alleging Putin?s links with organised crime (see, for example the article by Catherine Belton in the St. Petersburg Times entitled ?New Book Poses Question of Putin's Links with Underworld", which provides the English translation of the Kuchma conversation: id=2&storv Later on, Sasha included the information related to SPAG and to Kuchma?s conversation with Derkach about Putin into the ?Viktor Ivanov RepOrt?. Issue A3(b): Publications 52. Sasha?s first book, ?Blowing up Russia?, which alleged that the FSB staged the 1999 apartment bombings, was written jointly with Felshtinsky in Russian. Felshtinsky started writing it in 2000 on his own, and then Sashajoined the effort 14 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 15 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 53. after his arrival in London in November 2000. As I heard fro Sasha they worked as follows: they would discuss the issues, Felshtinsky wouldgsaitthe text which Sasha would then correct and amend. There is no doubt in my mind that Felshtinsky played the leading role, however, Sasha made important major contributions. The book was ?rst published in New York by Liberty Press, but had little recognition. It became widely known after Novaya Gazeta in Moscow serialised it in August 2001. The original publication of the boolt was fully subsidised by Berezovsky who paid Felshtinsky?s honorarium and expenses. Sasha and FeIsI-itinsky had a signed agreement on a 50/50 split of all proceeds (exhibit 8). However, the book was not commercially successful until after Sasha?s death. Presently ?Blowing Up Russia? is available in English and many other languages. To my knowledge, Felshtinsky did not pay Marina any royalties following Sasha?s death. 54. Sasha started to write his second book, ?The Gang from Lubyanka? some time in 55. early 2001. It originated as taped conversations with the journalist Akram Murtazaev, and was then transcribed and produced as a manuscript. I joined the work on the book in the summer 2001 after Sasha was granted asylum. He travelled to Europe to see me at the time I was banned from entering the UK. We met in Italy and Spain. I helped Sasha edit the manuscript, ghostwrote some sections, and wrote a preface. The book was published by Grani Inc. in New York, a company that I controlled, and was printed in Riga, Latvia in August 2002. The publication was fully subsidised by Berezovsky. The ?rst shipment of ?The Gang from Lubyanka? approximately 3,000 copies was delivered by truck from Riga to Moscow, in early 2003 with the help of Mikhail Trepashkin and was on sale in several bookstalls in the city centre. However, the second shipment, together with some 4.000 c0pies of ?Blowing Up Russia? was seized by the FSB on the highway on 30 December 2003 15 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 16 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 The books were declared extremist and banned. Issue A3(e): Alleged work for UK/Spanish intelligence agencies Work for N116 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. Sasha ?rst told me that he was working for M16 some time in early 2003. He asked whether I would agree to meet with his contact in connection with their interest in Badri Patarkatsishvili, Berezovsky's partner. At the time Badri resided in Tbilisi, Georgia and was not able to travel because he did not have a visa to any Western country. Sasha said that M16 wanted to talk to me about Badri, and arranged a meeting at Cafe Nero on Piccadilly. The M16 man introduced himself as Charlie, who, I understood, was heading the Russia line at M16. I know that because he told me that Simon Butt, then the head of the Russian desk at the FCO, "was his counterpart". I am reasonably con?dent about the tinting because I recall Charlie asking me about whether I knew anything about Russian assistance to Iraq in microbiology. which is my ?eld, so it must have happened some time before the US invasion in March 2003. I did not know anything on the subject. Charlie asked for my reaction to the theory that Badri had secret ties with the Kremlin, and was instrumental in advancing Russia's goals in Georgia. I said that I did not believe that. It might be true that Badri had some lines of communications open with top level Russians. but he was totally loyal to Berezovsky. Charlie asked whether I could arrange a meeting with Badri for M165 man at the British Embassy in Tbilisi. He said that the man was of?cially working as the liaison of the British Secret Service with the Georgian government. Charlie gave 16 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 17 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 61. 62. 63. me a telephone number to pass on to Badri. I forwarded the request to Badri; I believe it was during my visit to Tbilisi on 8?11 March 2003. Badri said that he would call the man. He asked me to ask Charlie whether they could do him a favor by checking whether there was a Russian Interpol Red Notice out for Badri. When I returned to London, I passed the request through Sasha, and he got back to me saying that Charlie checked and there was nothing on Badri in the Interpol. When I visited Tbilisi for the second time in December 2003, Badri told me that he had met the M16 man, and that he believed that he had satis?ed the British that he was not working for the Kremlin. I know that after that he was granted a visa to the UK. In the course of these interactions, Sasha told me that he was consulting M16 on Russia?s organised crime in Europe, and was traveling on their behalf to various countries in the EU assisting local law enforcement. He showed me his cover document, a British passport with his photograph. He was not a British citizen at the time. .In early 2006, I had a conversation with Sasha with regard to payments he was receiving from IFCL. Berezovsky who was the IFCL funder asked me to review the budget for 2006. I talked to Sasha with regard to his sources of income. and he told me that he was receiving "some money" from the secret services but that "was not enough to live on" so he could forgo the IFCL support altogether. As a result of these negotiations. and subsequent review by Berezovsky, Sasha's support from IFCL was reduced approximately by half - from about to annually. I provided the actual amounts paid in my letter to Louise Christian (exhibit 9). 17 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 18 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 65. 66. 67. I remember Sasha being torn on the subject of Berezovsky's support. On the one hand, hewas unhappy that Berezovsky reduced the amount of funding; on the other, he con?ded that his handlers at M16 were unhappy about his closeness with Berezovsky. He said something to the effect, that if he distanced himself from Berezovsky, he would be more involved with M16, perhaps even full-time, but he was hesitant to do so because he felt some obligation to Berezovsky. In late 2006, when Scotland Yard questioned me in connection with Sasha?s murder, I mentioned Sasha's work for M16 to the detectives, but they said this was not relevant, and it was not included in my written testimony. I mentioned the fact of Sasha's work for the British secret services, particularly the Spanish connection in my book, published in 2007. 68. I never received any money or other compensation from M16- Work for Spanish intelligence agencies 69. 70. I learned about Sasha's work with the Spanish security services in September 2005, in connection with my meeting with Trepashkin on 15-16 September 2005 in Kiev, Ukraine. At the time Trepashkin was brie?y released from prison and came to Kiev with his wife to see me. 1 was trying to persuade him to ?ee to the West. Prior to my departure to Kiev, 1 saw Sasha in London and he told me to tell Trepashkin that he (Sasha) could arrange for a job for Trepashkin in Spain, where Sasha had been working in connection with the Russian ma?a. He said that a specialist of Trepashkin?s calibre would be welcomed by the Spanish. Trepashkin, however, decided to return to Moscow, where he was rearrested and later imprisoned. Once in 2006, when we talked about Putin's corruption, Sasha said that one day he would testify in coutt on Putin's ma?a links. My recollection is that this was in the context of his work in Spain. He insisted that this was more realistic than I 18 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 19 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 72. 73. 71. was thinking. This remark gained weight in hindsight after his death. Its importance can be gleaned from publications in the Russian and Spanish press (far example, See El Pais article 1215295215 850215.html), and from Wikilcaks cables documents/223006 and documents/247712), as well as from Sasha?s own writings. Of particular relevance in this conteitt was Sasha?s claim, ?rst made public in 2002 in ?The Gang from Lubyanka?, that the Tambov criminal organisation in St. Petersburg, particularly its leaders Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov) and Alexander Malyshev, had links with Putin, then Deputy Mayor in charge of economics, and Nikolai Patrushev, who would go on to become the FSB Director during Putin?s presidency. In ?The Gang from Lubyanka? Sasha also claimed that corrupt FSB of?cials were involved in the export of illegal drugs to Western Europe through the St. Petersburg seaport and that Putin might have been complicit. Speci?cally, he talked about ?The Uzbek Trail? of drugs originating from Afghanistan. He detailed these allcgations in English in an essay, ?The Uzbek File? (discussed in paragraph 7, pages 10?13, exhibit 6), which was never published. He also wrote about the FSB role in drug smuggling in his letter to the editor of Washington Post published on 3 1 August 2002 In ?The Gang from Lubyanka? Sasha described Alexander Malyshev as a crime boss who was also an old KGB agent recruited by Litvinenko's colleague Colonel Alexander Gusak. Malyshev "had good connections with the fom-ier leaders of St. Petersburg's KGB, with [then FSB chief Nikolai] Patrushev, and with Putin."I This quote was translated by me from the Russian original. 19 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 20 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 74. 75. Litvinenko described an episode in 1998, when Malyshev called Patrushev on behalf of Gusak, who was under an internal investigation. In ?The Gang from Lubyanka?, Sasha also described Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov) as the "leader of the Tambov criminal organisation" in St. Petersburg. He goes on to say that "president Putin's relationship with the criminal Barsukov- Kumarin is currently the number one state secret in [but] the whole of St. Petersburg knows that Putin is linked to this man by personal friendship and ?nancial ties.? I cannot be absolutely certain that Sasha?s revelations which he made known to a number of journalists - were the only source of publications in the Russian press related to Kumarin Putin connection. Having said that, he was certainly one of the ?rst and most vocal and authoritative voices talking about those links. The subject had serious political implications for Putin as summarised in the pamphlet published by the Russian opposition ?gures, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and former Deputy Minister of Energy Vladimir Milov report which "Vladimir Smirnov was in the past closely linked with the well-known ?ma?a? businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who is currently in jail. Back in 1994. V. Smirnov was head of the Petersburg subsidiary of the German company SPAG and Kumarin was a member of its board. In 1999, SPAG was accused by the END (Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German Federal Intelligence Service) of laundering money for Russia ?s organised crime and also for Columbian drug dealers. SPAG director Rudolf Ritter was arrested for this in 2000. Between 1996 and 2001 V. Smimov was also in the upper management of 2/10 Petersburg Fuel Campany. During the same period Kumarin-Barsukov was its vice- 2 This quote was translated by me from the Russian original. 20 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 21 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 president and to all intents and purposes controlled the company. Rif- Security, a security company controlled by Kumarin-Barsukov and V. Smirnov, provided security services to the Ozero Dacha Condominium" 76. More importantly, Sasha was perhaps the only potential witness in any would be legal action related to those connections, by virtue of his living in the West and his credibility as an of?cer. 77. The scope of the Spanish investigation in which Sasha took part is available in the public domain as part of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) an international consortium of NGOs and media. Their investigation was summarised in a publication on 13 May 2009 in Novaya Gazeta l9.html), which claimed to haveaccess to documents and sources in the Spanish investigative team. In 2011, the English translation of the Novaya Gazeta report (exhibit lO) appeared brie?y on the web site of Putin's press service - apparently by oversight - and was then quickly removed. 78. Among other things, the report states: ?Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev and their associates, all arrested in Spain for operating a criminal organisation, had signi?cant connections in Russia, including with politicians. government of?cials, heads ofstate-owned companies, business leaders and friends of Vladimir Putin. The examining magistrate, Baltasar Garzdn, who is leading the investigation, has described the Russian businessmen arrested in Spain as members of the Tambov-Malyshev criminal organisation, thus establishing a link between Gennady Petrov and Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov), the 21 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 22 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 leader of the Tambov group who was arrested in Russia in 2007 and accused of planned and attempted murder, as well as robbery. 79. According to the report, the Spanish investigation established another Speci?c line of Kremlin's mob connections: through Rossia Bank and SOGAZ, which are multibillion corporations controlled by people on the top of the Forbes billionaire list. Novaya Gazcta reports as follows: '{from 1998 to 1999, they [Gennady Petrov, Sergey Kuzmin and Alexander Malyshev] were co-owners of Rossia Bank. which connects them with acquaintances of Vladimir Putin. "Rossia Bank shareholders include many St Petersburg friends of the former president and current prime minister of "Rossia Bank was able to obtain a controlling stake in the major Russian insurer SOGAZ (Insurance Company of the Gas Industry) "Some of Mr Putin?s relatives are connected with the bank and its a?iliated bodies. Mikhail Shelomov, the son of Mr Putin's female cousin, is the primary owner of the ?rm Aktsept, which, according to information from 2008, owned minority stakes in the bank, SOGAZ, and the bank- a??iliated management company Abrossia. Mikhail Putin, the son of the Prime Minister's male cousin, spent a short time at Gazprom, and in 2007 became deputy chairman of OGAZ. 80. Thus, sheer logic and analysis of material in the public domain allows me to make an inference related to the speci?c subjects of Sasha?s assistance to the Spanish secret service. This inference is based on his Speci?c knowledge of the kind mentioned above in paragraphs 71-75, the material in Wikileaks cables and the press, mentioned above in paragraphs 76-79, as well as the fact that he had no 22 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 23 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 0 other intelligence information or expertise of value. I suspect that a good deal of the information in the M16 ?les, which the HMG seeks to keep secret under its PII application, are related to Putin-ma?a connections. 81. The list of inferred specific items is as follows: The Tambov Gang in Spain and in St. Petersburg, and its speci?c members: Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov) Alexander Malyshev Gennady Petrov Zakhar Kalashev Tariel Oniani Vitali Izguilov Roman 'I?sepov, former Putin?s bodyguard who was apparently poisoned by Po-210 in St. Petersburg in 2004 newsfarticle 175225.ec 02 07 .fo4 rustf) Connections of the above listed mob ?gures with Putin and his entourage, including: Nikolai Patrushev, Head of the FSB. Secretary of Russia's National Security Council; Viktor Ivanov, former head of St. Petersburg KGB, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Kremlin, Chairman of the Board of Aero?ot. Chairman of Almaz?Antei Aerospace Industries; General Viktor Zolotov, head of presidential security, co?founder of Baltik?Escort; Vladimir Smirnov, Putin?s friend and associate, CEO of TechSnabExport, the State Atomic Exporting Company (which BTW handled exports of Po?210). 23 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 24 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 Companies and entities associated in the 90's both with Putin's circle and Tambov criminal organizations: - PetersburLFuel Company the initial commercial base of the Tambov gang; - Baltic?Escort, Roman Tsepov?s company, which provided Putin's personal security in the 90's, whose co?founder General Zolotov heads Putin's security today; M, a German company su5pected of money laundering, on whose board Putin sat; - Ozero Dacha Condominium, which in the late 90?s, served as social platform for St Petersburg city of?cials, the KGB brass, Tambov mobsters, and future billionaire shareholders of Rossia Bank and SOGAZ. Issue A4: Alexander Litvinenko?s involvement in political campaigning, media appearances, relationship with dissident/?migr? community - 2000-2006: 82. Until the end of 2003 Sasha made many public appearances and often spoke to the press. Of partiCular signi?cance were his appearance at the London press? conference on the Moscow apartment bombings on 5 March 2002 and an open teleconference with the Public COmrnission on the apartment bombings in Moscow on 25 July 2002 (referred to above). During this period he also gave several video interviews, in which he severely criticised Putin?s regime. This footage, in which he outlines his political position, was later used in the three documentaries which were released after his death: 0 ?In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko" (105 de Putter, VPRO 2007) 0 ?Rebellion" (Andrei Nekrasov, Dreamscanner 2007) 24 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 25 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 83. 84. 0 ?Who killed Alexander Litvinenko?" (Nick Lazaredes, 20071 Starting from 2004, Sasha signi?cantly reduced his public exposure. He refused to appear on camera or be photographed and only agreed to give radio and printed media interviews. He explained to me that this was a requirement derived from his work for the secret services, so as not to have his image seen by the wide public. The only exception to this was his statement from the ?oor in the debate on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya in the Frontiine Club On 19 October 2006 in London He was apparently not aWare the debate was being recorded. From 2004 to 2006 Sasha wrote a regular blog on the web site Chechenpress controlled by Zakayev, on topics varying from Russian abuses in Chechnya to personal attacks on Putin. An English language collection of his posts were published posthumously as Litvinenko Allegations Litvinenko/dp/ 1904997058). The most notable of these attacks was one published in July 2006, entitled ?Chikatilo of the Kremlin", in which he compared Putin to the Russian rapist and serial killer Andrey Chikatilo. The post was in fact a comment on the news story of Putin kissing a little boy in the stomach In the post, Sasha claimed that Putin was a paedophile, ?a fact known to many people? including an editor in Russia who died under suspicious circumstances as he was preparing a publication exploring the subject. The editor, Artyom Bomvik, died in a suspiciOus I air crash in 2000 There is no independent con?rmation of Sasha?s allegation that his death was in any way related to Putin. At the time, 1 spoke to Sasha saying that his post was ?too much?, and warn him that such unsubstantiated allegations do more harm than good. I have no doubt, however, that the post was noted in Moscow, and possibly reported to Putin, 25 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 26 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 85. because the kiss episode caused a furore, and Putin was forced to comment on it latch During his stay in London, Sasha's closest contacts in the emigre community to my knowledge were Zakayev, Berezovsky and his entourage, Nikita Chekulin, an apparent FSB plant, who claimed asylum in the UK, and then went back to Russia Sasha also was in contact with Evgeny Limarev, an ?migr? in France, Felshtinsky, Shvets. and Melnichenko. Of the visitors from Moscow, he was closest to the journalist Anna Politkovskaya. He was also well known (via telephone) to Moscow based journalists, Russian and foreign. who called him for comment. Issue A5: threats to and attacks against Alexander LitvinenkolBoris Berezovsky/Ahmed Zakayev 2000 - 2007: London 2003. The Terluk Episode 86. This refers to the confession of Vladimir Terluk that he had been assigned by his handlers in the Russian Embassy in London to carry out some reconnaissance with the apparent aim of targeting Berezovsky for some sort of a hostile action. My evidence in this relation has been provided in full in my Terluk WS. Ukraine 2005. Threats against Sasha 87. On 27 April 2005, I arrived in Kiev, Ukraine, to deliver the recordings of President Kuchma conversations (the Kuchma tapes) to Ukrainian Prosecutor General. This episode has been reported by Agence France Presse (exhibit ll}, which said: ?Ukrainian prosecutors on Wednesday announced plans to try to authenticate tapes sent by Russian exiled magnate Boris Berezovsky's foundation regarding conversations allegedly linking former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuehma to the murder of a dissident journalist. The 26 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 27 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 tapes also include a conversation allegedly between Kuchma and Leonid Derkach, the former head of the Ukrainian security service SBU. referring to German documents that could damage Russian President Vladimir Putin. ?We will collect within a month all these tapes? and organiZe ?an international investigation with the participation of US experts from the Bek Tek ?rm and probably others from Germany, general prosecutor Sviatoslav Pislcan Wednesday. 88. The reference to Putin is with regard to the SPAG documents mentioned above. 89.111 the course of this visit, my Ukrainian contact, Chief Investigator Roman Shubin told me that he would like to question Sasha but was reluctant to ask him to come to Kiev because ?the FSB is after him and we cannot guarantee his safety." Shubin asked for Sasha?s phone number in London. I know that eventually, Shubin came to LondOn, and took Sasha?s evidence at the Ukrainian Embassy. Russia 2006. Litvinenko Target Practice 90. After Sasha's death a videotape emerged showing Russian Spetsnaz special forces training using Sasha?s image for target practice in a shooting range London 2007. Attempt on Berezovsky On 16 June 2007, upon arrival in London. I learned that the police had wamed Berezovsky and Zakayev of an imminent security threat. Zakayev was given police guards, and Berezovsky was advised to leave the country. Later I learned that on 19 June 2007, the police had arrested a man with a gun in the 10bby of his of?ce building. 27 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 28 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 92. 93. 94. AbOut a month later, I learned from Berezovsky the details of the episode: the police intercepted intelligence about the plot, and the hit man was seized before he could strike. He arrived in early June 2007 and stayed at the Hilton Park Lane. He arranged for a purchase of a gun in London and sought a meeting with Berezovsky. Of?cially, it was only con?rmed that a man was arrested in central London for conspiracy to murder and was deported to Russia. Shortly afterwards Radio Echo Moscow revealed his name: it was Movladi Atlangeriev, 54, an ethnic Chechen living in Moscow. Atlangeriev was one of the founding fathers of the Lazania gang, which specialized in contract murders and ?special assignments? for the FSB. Sasha had suspected the Lazanians of carrying out, on behalf of the FSB, the 1999 bombings of apartment blocks in Moscow. Members of the gang were implicated in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya in 2006. The most signi?cant of publicly acknowledged Atlangeriev's services to the FSB was in the fall of 1999 when he convinced the warlords c0ntrolling the Chechen city of Gudermes besieged by the Russian army to switch allegiance and go with the Kremlin. For this Atlangeriev got the Order of Honor, the highest Russian civilian award. and a gift of a singular handgun, special issue, which he received personally from the hands of FSB Director Patrushev. Further details of the episode were revealed in the memoir of Andy Hayman, the former head of counter-terrorism in the British Police, entitled ?The Terrorist Hunters?, which came out in 2009 Hayman writes that when Scotland Yard learned about the identity of the ?high pro?le target?, they ?had no choice but to inform our political masters of the operation, in case it brought In the corridors of Whitehall it caused an uproar?. He further described the consultations between the Home Secretary,lthe Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister?s of?ce on how to handle the assassin. so as not to damage relations with 28 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 29 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 an unnamed ?foreign country?. In the end, the assassin was interrogated and expelled to Russia. 95. According to Russian press reports, six months after his return to Russia, Atlangeriev was kidnapped in the centre of Moscow by a squad, which beat him, pushed him into a car, and no one has seen him ever since. Threats after the fact by Sergei Abeltsev 96. On 24 November 2006, the day after Sasha?s death. Sergei Abeltsev, the Duma deputy withlinks to the FSB, who is a member of the Duma Committee on Security, stated on the ?oor of the Duma: ?Mr. Chaiman, Respected Deputies, Last night Alexander Litvinenko died in a London Hospital. The deserved punishment reached the traitor. I am con?dent that this terrible death will be a serious warning to traimrs of all colours, wherever they are located: In Russia, they do not pardon treachery. 1 would recommend citizen to avoid any food at the commemoration for his accomplice Litvinenko. 3 Issue 8: ?Death of a Dissident?. 9?7. The book (exhibit 12) which was co-authored with Litvinenko is based the following sources: 0 My personal recollection; 3 Translated from the Russian language of?cial site of Sergei Abeltsev Lystuplenie na olenarnom zasedanii eosudarstvennoy OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 30 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 0 ?The Gang from Lubyanka? by Sasha; 0 Interviews with Litvinenko, Mr Ben's Berezovsky, Mr Badri Patarkatsishvili, Mr Akhmed Zakayev, Mr Yuri Felshtinsky, Mr George Menzies and Mr Igor Malashenko conducted by me in early 2007. I have retained notes of these in Russian but understand that Sir Robert does not currently require to see them; 0 Several hundred media reports and other open sources available in the public domain at the time of writing detailing Sasha?s story in the period from 1994 to 2007 relating to the following key issues: comments by Vladimir Putin in relation to Sasha; press-conference in November 1998; interview with Sergey Dorenko (video); arrest and imprisonment in release and rearrest in 1999 (video); (0 ?ight to the UK in October 2000; articles by Sasha attacking Vladimir Putin in the period 2003-2006; investigation by Sasha of the Russian apartment bombings; My research relating to Po-210; (D My research of relating to Mr Roman Tsepov and his death. STATEMENT OF TRUTH 1, Alex Goldfarb, certify that I believe that the facts stated in this witness statement are true. Signed: 1 Alex: holdtarb f/Q?/oz?/a 30 OP WHIMBREL - X3116 - - Book 56.0002 - Page 31 0f 31 ALEXANDER GOLDFARB COPY OF WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER GOLDFARB DATED 20.5.13 Alex Goldfarb First Statement 20 May 2013 IN THE MATTER OF AN IN QUEST TOUCHIN THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER LITVINENKO WITNESS STATEMENT OF ALEX GOLDFARB Blokh Solicitors 15 Baker Street London W1 6RT 31