Man who leads group accused of killing ex-spy
This is the man who leads the group accused of planning the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, and the Italian investigator Mario Scaramella, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. A memo, handed to Litvinenko by Scaramella at the Itsu restaurant in Piccadilly on the day he was poisoned, alleged that both men were being targeted. The memo claimed that agents of the Russian security services and an organisation called Dignity and Honour, run by a Colonel Velentin Velichko, were trying to kill the “enemy No 1 of Russia” and his “companion in arms” — exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko. Full Story