Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was a Russian security agent. He joined the Russian army and in 1988 he joined the KGB (Comittee for State Security). In 1991 he joined the moved to the Federal Security Service (FSB) where he fought against terrorism and organized crime. He was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow where he was charged for "exceeding his authority at work". He was aquitted and escaped to London.

In 2006, Litvinenko began investigating the death of the journalist Anna Politskovkaya. On 1st of November he met a former KGB member and an Italian academic at a hotel in London. The day after he was admittet to the hospital. Two weeks later it was announced that there was a possibility that he had been posioned with Thallium.

Alexander Litvinenko died on November 23rd 2006. It was later confirmed that he had been poisoned by a radioactive material.