Report: Britain Cans Case Against Russia in Litvinenko Death

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Jan. 7, 2014 - PRLog -- A new report by Omnicom Press author William Dunkerley analyzes why Britain eliminated the search for a Russian culprit in the controversial Litvinenko case. The 2006 case revolves around the mysterious death in London of Alexander Litvinenko. He was a reputed former KGB spy who many believe was murdered on orders of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Until recently, London coroner Sir Robert Owen was in hot pursuit of Russian state responsibility for Litvinenko's death. In Dunkerley's report, published by the American University in Moscow, he examines why the search for a Russian culprit has been officially removed from the scope of the inquest. The facts Dunkerley sets forth may truly surprise you.

Dunkerley shows how the coroner had been reprimanded by the British Home Secretary for exceeding his responsibility and refusing to perform his statutory duties. According to Dunkerley, "Owen, in effect, had been on a fishing expedition, but with no license to fish." The law on coroners specifically forbids them from finding criminal culpability. "That's a job for the police and prosecutor," Dunkerley explains. This pivotal issue has been overlooked in most media coverage he observes.

Much of the coroner's misbehavior involved the pursuit of classified government documents that were alleged to incriminate Russia. Dunkerley points out that the source of the allegation was Boris Berezovsky, a notorious political enemy of Putin's who was hiding out in London from criminal convictions back in Russia.

"How could that fugitive know what's in British security documents?" asks Dunkerley. "This all seems very fishy," Dunkerley observed. Yet the disgraced coroner Owen seemed to "swallow the whole story, hook line and sinker," Dunkerley bemoans.

"It was Berezovsky and his followers who kicked off the original story that Russian president Vladimir Putin was behind the purported spy's murder," reports Dunkerley. "The only trouble," he says, "is this was a murder case without a murder and a spy drama without a spy." In Dunkerley's book, The Phony Litvinenko Murder, he shows there is no evidence that Litvinenko ever did espionage work, and that the coroner has never ruled that Litvinenko was even murdered." That whole story was a fabrication of Berezovsky's, Dunkerley concludes. "He just seemed interested in compromising Putin," claims Dunkerley.

How did this complicated web of misinformation finally get straightened out? Dunkerley's report details the work of "Russia without Spin" (http://www.russiawithoutspin.com), a private sector initiative that waged a successful advocacy to set the Litvinenko inquest on a more fact-based course.

Dunkerley's entire report titled "Britain Cans Case Against Russia" can be seen at: http://bit.ly/1kkuY2m