From Brisbane Times Australia

After months of saying very little, the former KGB agent accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko says Britain’s secret services may have had a hand in the murder.

Andrei Lugovoi’s sensational claim, which was certain to further damage relations between Moscow and London, was part of an elaborate tale that included a secret codebook and a supposed British plot to smear Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But he offered no evidence to back his claims, and for some his explanation created more confusion than clarity.

Litvinenko, a renegade member of the Russian secret services hated by many former colleagues, died in a London hospital in November after ingesting radioactive polonium-210. On his deathbed Litvinenko accused Putin of being behind his killing - charges the Kremlin has angrily denied.

Lugovoi, who met Litvinenko in London on November 1, hours before the former agent fell ill, described the British accusations against him as an effort to shift suspicion away from the British spy services, who he said might be implicated in the crime.

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