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A number of examples oi attempted and real attacks on Mr Berezovsky's own Ille' as well as

that of his associates, were set out in Mr Marino's first witness statement For ease of

reierence, have summarised these examples below,

Mr Berezovsky has been under threat of assassination in Russia since the early
19905. in 1994' a remotercontrolled car bomb exploded in a nearby car when Mr
Berezuvsky's car was pulling out at the Club' decapllatihg his driver and
injuring Mr Berezovsky, in 1997 there was an FSB plot to assassinate him, which
was subsequently revealed to Mr Berezovsky by Mr Litvinehko,

The assassination threat was not limited to Russia in 2002, Mr Berezovsky received
a warning < Nor have the previous assassination attempts been confined to Mr Eerezovsky. They
have extended to a number or people who have previously been or assistance to him.
Thus (and by way oi several non-exhaustive examples)'

On 21 August 2002, Mr Golovyiov (a political associate oi Mr Berezovsky)
was assassinated.

(ii) An attempt was made to assassinate Mr Alexander Kostarev on 19 March
2002' Mr Kostarev had organised the snowmg or a documentary that was
sponsored by Mr Berezovsky, and was also active in Liberal Russia

On 17 April 2003' Sergei Yushenkov was assassinated just hours atter
announcing tnat Liberal Russia would take part in the parliamentary elections
lixed lor that December. The clear consensus among commentators was that
this was a political killing.

(iv) Vuri Shchekochikhin was another liberal member at the Dulna' and was also
Deputy Editor at the opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta It was Mr
Snoekoohlokhin who played the rnost influential role in the publication at the
book 'Blowing Up Russia as a special issue or Novaya Gazeta on 27 August
2001, The book, authored by Mr Litvinenko and Yuri Felsnt'insky, documents
acts at terror and contract killings organised by the FSB, as well as dealing in
detail with the bombing of apartment buildings in Russia He died on 3 July
2003, apparently as the result oi a slow acting poison

Finally and most notoriously, Mr Eerezovsky's good Mann and associate Mr
Litvinenkoi who had himselt received political asylum in the UK. received a
tatal dose oi polonium-ZtO in London in November 2005. Mt Eerezovsky
informed Mr Marina (and tntorms me) that Mr Litvinenko inlorrned him (when
he visited him after the poisoning at London's University College Hospital)
that he had no doubt that the Russian authorities had commissioned his
assassination and that Andrei Lugovoy. a former FSB agent, had
administered the poison which he knew was killing him It is a matter of
public record that the Russian authorities have steadtastly retused the British
Government's requests tor the extradition or Mr Lugovoy. On 26 January
2007, it was reported' senior British government officials have [Old the
Guardian that officials Moscow have already indicated (hell willingness to
Strike a deal which would See the Suspect being handed over in return for Mr
Esrszovksy's extradition" 

 

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