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Almost 16 years after the poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in London, Dmitry Kovtun, the person accused by the British judiciary of the crime, is dead. The businessman died of a coronavirus infection at the age of 57, the Russian state news agency TASS reported on Saturday. Kovtun, who had lived in Germany for a time, allegedly killed Litvinenko with the radioactive poison polonium 2006. Andrey Lugovoy, who is also a suspect and a member of parliament in Russia, confirmed the death on his Telegram messaging channel. “My close and loyal friend Dmitry Kovtun has passed away prematurely. This...
