We had a post on March 29, 2008, ” Alexander Litvinenko: a wife’s plea”.

This post was a copy of a letter written by the widow of the ex KGB operative who was allegedly murdered on November 1, 2006. by another KGB operative, Andrei Lugovoy, using radioactive polonium-210.

Marina Litvinenko stated in part: “I do this against the wishes of the Scotland Yard and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, who both told me that making the evidence public would prejudice a criminal trial of the chief suspect, Andrei Lugovoy, whom the UK is trying to extradite from Russia. But after waiting for 15 months I have come to the conclusion that Mr Lugovoy, a former KGB agent, will never be extradited. So I respectfully reject their argument. I cannot wait for another ten years for a slim chance that their approach would bear fruit.”

While preparing a follow up post that would include a wanted poster, the unexpected happened. To ensure the accuracy of our information, we did a search on Interpol, entering “Andrei Lugovoy” as the search term. We got an interesting return on our search queries!

No documents matching your query were found.

Continuing, others data banks were searched:

FBI: Your search - Andrei Lugovoy - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing “Andrei Lugovoy”.

Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard): web search: no matches were found for ‘Andrei Lugovoy’

Home Office: Your search - Andrei Lugovoy - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing “Andrei Lugovoy”.

The Crown Prosecution Service: Search results for “Andrei Lugovoi”
Sorry, no results found

We did actually get a hit using the US State department web site. There is a mention in the 2007 country report on Britain stating:
On May 28, British authorities requested the extradition from Russia of Andrei Lugovoy in connection with the 2006 death by radioactive poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Alekasandr Litvenenko. Litvenenko had been highly critical of the Russian political leadership, and many observers believed the killing was politically motivated. Russian authorities rejected the extradition request.

Marina Litvinenko indeed may be a long time waiting for “justice”!

EDIT: At the request of a contributor, we ran the same checks using the Russian spelling, “Andrei Lugovoi” and actually added more checks. Same results.

Your search - Andrei Lugovoi - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing “Andrei Lugovoi”.