Russian President Vladimir Putin is yet again in the news, but this time for something that sounds straight out of a Hollywood action movie.

On Thursday, January 21st, an ex-British High Court judge ruled out that Vladimir Putin “probably” ordered the poisoning of ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko back in 2006. This came after a two month public inquiry based headed by judge Robert Owen.

In Owen’s report, he claims that Putin, as well as the FSB (Federal Security Service) had in fact okayed the assassination of the Litvinenko.

Owen also claims that former KGB and FSB agent Andrei Lugovoi and former Russian army officer Dimitri Kovtun traveled to London to poison Litvinenko.

Litvinenko became a marked man as he fled Russia and defected to Britain, where he began to blame Russia for a series of apartment bombings that took place in 1999, which killed hundreds. He soon joined the British payroll, and wrote a document accusing Putin of being a pedophile.

The ex-agent was poisoned in his London hotel room after drinking green tea laced with polonium-210, a highly radioactive and toxic element produced in nuclear reactors. His body was so severely radioactive that doctors attending to him had to wear protective suits, and his body was buried in a casket lined with lead. According to NBC Dateline, the polonium was worth between 8 to 12 million dollars.

Litvinenko’s final statement before his death pinned his poisoning on Lugovoi and Kovtun, since he met with them in his hotel room. He also accused Putin of ordering his assassination:
“You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”

Litvinenko’s death is not the only murder that has been suspected to of been carried out by Putin. Human rights advocates who have spoken out against Putin have been jailed and murdered. One of the most well known cases is the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov was a member of a liberal opposition group to Putin. He spoke openly about Russia turning into a fascist state, and wrote about Russia’s impact in Ukraine. Nemtsov was shot by an assassin walking home, and the Kremlin denies any participation.

Although the poisoning happened nearly 6 years ago, these findings have offered some closure to his widow, Marina Litvinenko.

In an interview outside the High Court, she said she was “pleased that the words my husband spoke on his deathbed when he accused Mr. Putin of his murder have been proved true in an English court.”

She later added that she would like to see Russian intelligence operatives to leave the UK and for the UK to impose new sanctions on Russia, an unlikely outcome since both sides are trying to work on the Syrian Crisis.

Vladimir Putin has denied any allegations against him, and claims the report is only attempting to slander Russia. He refuses to extradite the two assassins, Lugovoi and Kovtun, despite numerous European arrest warrants being issued.