MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Andrei Lugovoi, the U.K.'s key suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, said Wednesday he had not traveled to Britain for questioning because the country's authorities never invited him.
"I am not going and will not go to Britain, because nobody invited me there," the Russian businessman told a news conference held in Moscow for British journalists.
Former Kremlin bodyguard Lugovoi, who repeatedly denied all charges against him, said that last year on November 20, just three days before the death of Litvinenko, he and his business partner Dmitry Kovtun visited the British Embassy in Moscow, where they left their full contact details.
"Acting sensibly, I together with Kovtun wrote a statement and left all contacts, telephone numbers and addresses," Lugovoi said, adding that he also proposed a meeting with Scotland Yard experts, but they never contacted him.
