Criticism
The chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent Mary Dejevsky opined that Goldfarb "expertly fronted" a publicity campaign in the last week of Alexander Litvinenko's life and that Berezovsky dictated the view that the British public had of the event.
Zhores Medvedev has suggested that the U.S. administration recommended Alexander Goldfarb to Boris Berezovsky and that Goldfarb's work for Berezovsky is associated with political plots and lies against Vladimir Putin.
Andrey Lugovoy, who is wanted by the British authorities for Litvinenko's murder, has asserted that Goldfarb and Litvinenko ran an illicit operation of fabricating evidence for asylum seekers in the UK. The same allegation made an appearance in a 2010 libel suit won by Boris Berezovsky in which he contested the claim made in a programme broadcast by Russian state television station RTR (now Russia 1) that he had murdered Litvinenko to prevent exposure of his allegedly fraudulent asylum claim. Goldfarb testified at the 2010 London trial, which vindicated Berezovsky.
Anatoly Karlin has alleged that Goldfarb orchestrated an anti-Putin campaign around the world on Berezovsky's behalf.
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