Russian President, Vladimir Putin had sex with under-aged boys, said murdered KGB agent.

Mr Putin's encounter with Nikita Konkin, pictured, came during a walkabout in the Kremlin

Alexander Litvinenko claimed that Vladimir Putin had been caught on camera having sex with young boys, according to the inquiry into the spy's murder.

When the future Russian president was a student, he was filmed abusing children in a flat where another top Russian politician, Yuri Skuratov, had a threesome with prostitutes, Litvinenko wrote in a sensational web post.

The wild claim is recorded in Sir Robert Owen's inquiry report as part of a long list of allegations made by the assassinated spy against Mr Putin after he fled Russia and settled in Britain.Litvinenko made the accusation after the president was pictured kissing the stomach of a five-year-old boy during a walkabout in the Kremlin in June 2006.

Mr Putin's encounter with the five-year-old boy a few months earlier made global headlines, as the Russian president insisted it was nothing more than a gesture of affection.

'People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy,' Mr Putin said afterwards. 'He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenceless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy.

'I tell you honestly, I just wanted to stroke him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. There is nothing behind it.'

The child, named by Russian media as Nikita Konkin, said that he had refused to wash after Mr Putin had kissed his stomach.

'I just liked him and he liked me very much,' Nikita said. 'I want to be president myself.'

Alexander Litvinenko (pictured) accused Vladimir Putin of being a paedophile after he was pictured kissing the stomach of a five-year-old boy, right

The inquiry report describes how the dissident claimed Mr Putin was a 'paedophile', adding that videos existed of him 'making sex with some underage boys'.

Litvinenko said that Mr Putin destroyed the footage, which allegedly saw him sent away from Russia for a while when he was a student, after becoming head of the FSB secret service.

After graduating from the Andropov Institute, which prepares officers for the KGB intelligence service, Putin was not accepted into the foreign intelligence. Instead, he was sent to a junior position in KGB Leningrad Directorate.

'This was a very unusual twist for a career of an Andropov Institute's graduate with fluent German. Why did that happen with Putin?

'Because, shortly before his graduation, his bosses learned that Putin was a pedophile [sic]. So say some people who knew Putin as a student at the Institute.

'Many years later, when Putin became the FSB director and was preparing for the presidency, he began to seek and destroy any compromising materials collected against him by the secret services over earlier years. It was not difficult, provided he himself was the FSB director.

President: Mr Putin is alleged to have ordered Litvinenko's killing after the ex-spy fled Russia became one of his fiercest critics

The Kremlin has never commented directly on the allegations made by Litvinenko, but yesterday the Russian government dismissed the whole inquiry report as 'Western propaganda'.

Giving evidence to the inquiry last year, Litvinenko's widow Marina said she had 'no idea' whether or not the paedophile claims were true.

Sir Robert concluded that Mr Putin had 'probably' approved the dissident's assassination himself, along with the current head of the FSB.

Litvinenko died in November 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium during a meeting with Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun at a London hotel.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has condemned the state-sponsored assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, branding the murder "horrific".

The London Mayor said there should be the "strongest possible diplomatic response" against those behind the killing.

His comments come after a public inquiry found that the radioactive poisoning of the former KGB officer in 2006 was "probably" sanctioned by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Litvinenko's allegations were reproduced in the report released yesterday by retired High Court judge Sir Robert Owen, pictured

Culled from DAILY MAIL