Golubovich has agreed to testify against Khodorkovsky and Nevzlin, and voluntarily returned to Russia, btw. But now, with the Mr.Valdez-Garcia’s escape from the protective custody in Moscow, Russian prosecutors lost his main witness. Another mess!

Here is what Oleg Gordievsky says about the Limarev’s role in this mess:

Speaking about Mario Scaramella, Gordievsky says he is not guilty. According to him, Litvinenko’s Italian contact “was manipulated by the well-known Limarev, who started to send him warnings: a murder is under preparation, do warn him, and ask for an appointment…” Gordievsky says it was a purely distracting action and Litvinenko had realized that Scaramella had brought him just some nonsense. http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1207

The association I found for OAO Russian Investors, also known as JSC Russian Investors, is with Transneft (the Russian pipeline company currently embroiled with Belarus), not Russneft. The connection is here in Transneft’s own stock documents online:

http://www.transneft.ru/press/Default.asp?LANG=EN&ATYPE=9&PG=3&ID=3752
Fact of signing the Prospectus by the financial advisor on the securities market:
the Bonds Prospectus has been signed by the financial advisor on the securities market – Open Joint Stock Company “Russian investors” ;
The full name of the financial advisor on the securities market:
Open Joint Stock Company “Russian investors”
Short name of the financial advisor on the securities market:
OAO Russian investors;
Location of the financial advisor on the securities market:
Bldg. 14, 35, Perovsky Proezd, Moscow, Russia;
Date of state registration of issue (additional issue) of securities:
31.10.2003;

***

Alexey Golubovich, now in exile, founded and chaired OAO Russian Investors. http://www.investors.ru/en/About_Company/Our_Leadership/

This was on their website as of October 16, 2006:

” Julia Svetlichnaja, Communication Manager
Svetlichnaja@investors.ru ”

Svetlichnaja-Svetlichnaya and her attorneys have made statements about “Diamond Bridge Advisory Services,” but have said nothing about the connection to Russian Investors, or how that group may connect to Diamond Advisory. Also, note that the statement from Svetlichnaya’s law firm Collyer Bristow, above, specifically states that she has taken “legal action against the company [Diamond Bridge Advisory Services in London -- Mariposa] which claimed she never worked for it.”

Interesting mess, and as far as I can tell, Svetlichnaja-Svetlichnaya still presents no proof of her blackmail allegations against Litvinenko.

The Litvinenko Investigation – Julia Svetlichnaja and Legal Action against the Press

She confirmed in answer to questioning concerning her employment with a company alleged to be linked to the Russian State, that she had a part-time job from May 2005 to April 2006 (whilst working on her PhD) obtained through a London employment agency. She was employed as a journalist/webmaster for Diamond Bridge Advisory Services – a company based in London. She was dismissed without reason in April 2006 and took legal action against the company which claimed that she never worked for it.

Julia Svetlichnaja is taking legal action against The Sunday Times newspaper and Aftenposten, a Norwegian publisher in relation to these inaccuracies. Any further inaccuracies will result in additional legal action.

http://www.collyerbristow.com/Default.aspx?sID=53&cID=431&ctID=43&lID=0

Golubovich, as you say on your site, currently resides under house arrest in Pisa, although the Italian courts recently denied Russia its extradition request. In addition, Golubovich claims (Yukos) Leonid Nevzlin has tried to kill him and his wife.

Nevzlin (and Yuri Shvets, as well) claims Litvinenko delivered “a dossier” to him in person in Israel about 6-8 weeks before he was murdered. Nevzlin turned the dossier over to Scotland Yard.

Shvets performs investor risk management due diligence investigations, and stated in an interview with Tom Mangold on BBC radio in December 2006 that Litvinenko also performed such work.

According to Larisa Alexandrovna at Raw Story, Litvinenko was under contract with Erinys. http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Exclusive_Murdered_ExKGB_Officer_Worked_for_1211.html

Erinys International/ Titon International, both located at 25 Grosvenor and connected through Major General John Holmes, were visited by Litvinenko and his Russian security associates Andrei Lugovoi and Dimitri Kovtun; this site was contaminated by exposure to polonium 210.

In addition, Litvinenko, Lugovoi, and Kovtun also visited RISC (Management) at No. 1 Cavendish Place; this site was contaminated as well. RISC used to be ISC Global Security — lawyer Stephen Curtis’s security company — the same Curtis with Yukos ties and associates, and whose untimely death was investigated as suspicious. Nevzlin is also associated with ISC Global.
http://www.mail-archive.com/political-research@yahoogroups.com/msg06668.html

Who knows where this will end up?

After graduation he worked as an interpreter for a sugar factory, where several carloads of sugar were supposedly “redirected” by him and sold for a profit. Later on he used his knowledge of foreign languages to become acquainted with the Duma (Russian Parliament) then Leader Mr. Seleznev.

In the shady days of Yeltzin’s “free economy” they managed to get their hands on a good chunk of IMF money to establish the Foundation of Sustained Development of Russia. Surprisingly, it was registered in Switzerland! Limarev left Russia, Seleznev visited him several times, and the Foundation quietly disappeared….

Limarev was selling silver and semiprecious encrusted items such as Quorans, icons and daggers on his site. Since it was illegal to bring them to France legally, he smuggled his merchandise. In his conversations with me he told me that since Muslims prefer to pay by cash, it is a safe and profitable business for him and his potential agents.

Unfortunately, a friend of mine who introduced me to him fell out with Mr. Limarev shortly thereafter. A few months later she was killed in a single car accident on the quiet road in Northern France. It is a shadowy world these people inhabit, indeed.