August 30, 2007 (LPAC) - Andrei Lugovoi, the man London accuses of having killed Berezovsky's man Litvinenko on orders from Russian president Putin, gave a news conference on Wednesday in which he taught the British some lessons on investigative methods and accused the highest levels of the British state and government of having concocted a campaign of lies against him and the Russian president.

"There is no evidence, there is no proof. Everything that the Crown Prosecution Service says is a lie, inspired by the British top leadership together with the special services", said Lugovoi referring to allegations raised against him in the Litvinenko murder, according to Ria Novosti. Lugovoi said that fugitive oligarch and Putin's professed enemy Boris Berezovsky, currently protected by British authorities in London, was involved in the crime, as well as in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. "It was a throughly planned provocation. I believe there was to have been the chain 'Politkovskaya-Livinenko-Tregubova [journalist Yelena Tregubova]", Lugovoi told journalist.

This statement comes one day after Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika reported the arrest of a gang suspected of the murder of journalist Politkovskaya, and connected the Politkovskaya case to the murder of Paul Klebnikov, son-in-law of Wall Street banker and intelligence operative John Train. Thus, taking together Lugovoi's and Chaika's statement, the connection Litvinenko-Politkovskaya-Klebnikov is established, as a murder thread leading to Chechen separatist gangs steered from London by Boris Berezovsky.

Lugovoi said that he was sure that British intelligence was involved in the murder of Litvinenko last November in London. He said that Berezovsky had met with him shortly before Litvinenko's death to prepare an alibi for himself. Lugovoi said that he visited the British embassy in Moscow and left all his contact information, but Scotland Yard never contacted him, nor did anyone from London send any papers. According to Interfax, Lugovoi suggested looking at Litvinenko's bank account in order to collect evidence - Litvinenko told him that he was receiving a salary: "This means that we can trace what money was transferred and to which accounts, Lugovoi said.