# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dmitry-kovtun
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:47:51.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dmitry-kovtun"
name: "Dmitry Kovtun"
slug: "dmitry-kovtun"
description: "Dmitry Vladimirovich Kovtun was a Russian businessman and KGB agent who was suspected to have murdered the former Russian spy and later British citizen Alexander Litvinenko in London, England. In 2021 the European Court of Human Rights found beyond reasonable doubt that Andrey Lugovoy and Kovtun had killed Litvinenko."
tagline: "Former Russian intelligence agent (1965–2022)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1965-09-25"
deathDate: "2022-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.91272133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ковтун Дмитро Володимирович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديمتري كوفتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديمترى كوفتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrij_Kovtun"
    title: "Dmitrij Kovtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Wladimirowitsch_Kowtun"
    title: "Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Kowtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Kovtun"
    title: "Dmitry Kovtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Kovtun"
    title: "Dmitri Kovtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%93%9C%EB%AF%B8%ED%8A%B8%EB%A6%AC_%EC%BD%A5%ED%88%B0"
    title: "드미트리 콥툰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Kovtun"
    title: "Dmitry Kovtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrij_Kovtun"
    title: "Dmitrij Kovtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrij_Kowtun"
    title: "Dmitrij Kowtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Ковтун, Дмитрий Владимирович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrij_Vladimirovi%C4%8D_Kovtun"
    title: "Dmitrij Vladimirovič Kovtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1232708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump