Andrei Lugovoi
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Andrey Lugovoy Андре́й Лугово́й Member of Parliament |
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Andrey Lugovoy
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Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy (Андре́й Константи́нович Лугово́й) 19 September 1966 Baku, USSR (now Azerbaijan) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Лугово́й; born 19 September 1966), also spelled Lugovoi, is a Russian politician and businessman and deputy of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, for the LDPR. He worked as a KGB bodyguard and as head of "Ninth Wave", a security firm. He is wanted by British police on suspicion of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB and later FSB officer. Russia has rejected the request for his extradition.
Born in 1966 in Baku, Lugovoy attended the elite Soviet military command academy in Moscow.
In 1987, he joined the KGB's 9th directorate which provided security for top state officials. He was a platoon commander for five years and then served as a commander in the Kremlin regiment's training company. In 1991 he was transferred to the Federal Protective Service of Russia until his resignation at the end of 1996. During this time he provided security for Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the head of the presidential administration Sergey Filatov and Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev.
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