Dmitry Kovtun Cause OF Death
Dmitry Vladimirovich Kovtun (Russian: митри ладимирови овтyн; 1965 – 4 June 2022) was a Russian businessman and KGB agent suspected of assassinating former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. Kovtun is from a military family. In the 1980s, he attended Moscow’s Higher Military Command School. Andrei Lugovoi was a classmate and boyhood buddy of his. Following…
Dmitry Vladimirovich Kovtun (Russian: митри ладимирови овтyн; 1965 – 4 June 2022) was a Russian businessman and KGB agent suspected of assassinating former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. Kovtun is from a military family.
In the 1980s, he attended Moscow’s Higher Military Command School. Andrei Lugovoi was a classmate and boyhood buddy of his.
Following graduation, Kovtun and Lugovoi joined the KGB’s ninth directorate, which was in charge of protecting important Kremlin leaders.
They got into the security business after the Soviet Union fell apart. He worked as a business consultant as well.
Kovtun saw the poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko numerous times in London, the first in mid-October and the second just hours before Litvinenko became ill on November 1.
German authorities reported finding evidence of radiation at Kovtun’s Hamburg residence on December 9, 2006.
The polonium residues were discovered on a couch at Kovtun’s ex-flat wife’s in Hamburg the night before he flew to London for a meeting with Litvinenko, according to German police, and according to British investigators.
Dmitry Kovtun Cause OF Death
Dmitry Kovtun, a businessman and former KGB agent who was one of two Russian men suspected by Britain of poisoning Kremlin critic Aleksandr Litvinenko in London in 2006, died on June 4 after acquiring COVID-19 in Moscow, according to Russian state media.
He was 57 years old at the time.
