Litvinenko suspect wants to be Russian president

MOSCOW: The Russian man wanted by Britain on suspicion of killing Alexander Litvinenko said on Monday he would like to become president of Russia.   

Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB security service officer, said he would run for election to parliament as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), which is headed by ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky.   

When asked by a reporter what other political aspirations he had beyond being a member of parliament, he said: “Like any other citizen of the Russian Federation, I would like to be president.”   

British prosecutors want to extradite Lugovoy from Russia to face trial in London for the murder of Russian emigre Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital on Nov. 23 after receiving a dose of radioactive polonium-210, a rare and highly toxic isotope.