Moscow Mistrusts Legal Process on Litvinenko Case in Great Britain

Kremlin isn't taking part in Britain's investigation into the death of former Russian Federal Security Service officer Alexander Litvinenko.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Moscow does not trust the legal process underway in Great Britain on the murder of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

"No, we don’t trust it," Peskov told journalists.

On Thursday, London released a statement saying that Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun poisoned Litvinenko and the courts were to decide whether the Russian government was behind the killing.

"This [legal proceeding] isn’t our agenda, it’s Britain’s internal investigation, so we don’t have anything to do with it," Peskov added.

Peskov said that similar accusations were repeatedly voiced by British officials after Litvinenko’s death, well before the investigation brought results.

Litvinenko fled from Russia to Britain in 2000. He died in 2006, three weeks after drinking tea with Kovtun and Lugovoi at a hotel in London.

Directly following his death, UK authorities claimed that Litvinenko's former colleagues poisoned him with material containing radioactive isotope polonium-210.

Both Kovtun and Lugovoi deny involvement in Litvinenko's death.