Marina Litvinenko
Marina Litvinenko, the widow of murdered KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, leaves after giving evidence at the High Court in central London February 2, 2015. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent killed with polonium in London, believed Vladimir Putin lacked the mettle to stamp out corruption inside Russia's security agency and that he had links to organised crime, his widow said on Monday. Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sexual preference was questioned by a former KGB spy who died in 2006.

Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent said the president is a pedophile. He based his accusation on reports that Putin kissed in public a young boy on the stomach.

He made the accusation in 2006, several months after he was poisoned, in an article titled “The Kremlin Pedophile.” According to the former spy, Putin was walking from the Big Kremlin Palace to his house when he noticed tourists on Kremlin Square. One of them was the young boy, Nikita, whose T-shirt Putin lifted, which he followed by a kiss on the stomach.

The public was shocked with Putin’s action, Litvinenko said. Mail Online published a photo of Putin kissing the boy’s stomach.

When Putin was still with the Andropov Institute, the training ground for Soviet spies, he had a reputation as a pedophile, which was allegedly the reason why officials didn’t accept Putin in foreign intelligence, said Litvinenko, who sought political asylum in UK.

He died in November 2006 of radiation poisoning. Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, told on Thursday to the Royal Courts of Justice investigating her husband’s death that she has no idea if the pedophile allegation is true.

Ironically, Putin passed laws in Russia penalising gays and lesbians. He is also accused of being homophobic.

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