[Russian State TV Attacks Litvinenko] - [Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009]

RTR reported on April 1 that four years ago, Litvinenko offered an acquaintance millions of dollars in exchange for false testimony against Russian security services.

The acquaintance, identified only as Pyotr, claims in the report that Litvinenko offered him money to falsely testify that security agents were plotting to kill exiled tycoon and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky.

Pyotr says he refused but was forced to record the accusations onto audiotape after being drugged at a meeting with Litvinenko and another Berezovsky associate.

Berezovsky has rejected the allegations.

The report said the tape was a key element in a British court's decision to reject a Russian request to extradite Berezovsky to face criminal charges.

(AP, vesti.ru)

Russian State TV Attacks Litvinenko

Litvinenko died in November in a London hospital (epa)April 2, 2007 -- Russian state television has launched an attack on Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former Russian security officer who died late last year in London from radiation poisoning.

Litvinenko died in November in a London hospital (epa)
April 2, 2007 -- Russian state television has launched an attack on Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former Russian security officer who died late last year in London from radiation poisoning.