Andrey Lugovoy (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Лугово́й; b. September 19, 1966, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a Russian politician and businessman and deputy of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament for the LDPR. He is a former KGB bodyguard and the ex-head of the security firm "Ninth Wave".
He has been implicated in the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident living in the United Kingdom, who was fatally poisoned with polonium-210 in his tea. A public inquiry in the U.K. ruled that Lugovy and Dmitry Kovtun had carried out the murder, likely with the knowledge of President Vladimir Putin and Federal Security Bureau director Nikolai Patrushev.[1] In 2021, the European Court of Human Rights found Lugovy and Kovtun guilty of Litvinenko's murder in absentia and ruled that they had been acting under orders from the Russian government when they killed Litvinenko.[2] However, Russia has consistently refused to extradite Lugovy and Kovtun, who remain at liberty.[3]
