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London Didn't Say How Litvinenko Died
British law enforcement did not inform their Russia colleagues of what, in their opinion, former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko died of and did not provide all the necessary documents in the case, stated Andrey Mayorov, deputy head of the department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office. “We did not receive the minimum of documents in the so-called Litvinenko case,” he said in an interview with Rossiiskaya gazeta newspaper published on Thursday. “Formally speaking, we do not even know what he died of.”
Litvinenko, who fled to Great Britain in 2000, died in November 2006 in London. According to British authorities, he was poisoned with radioactive polonium 210, although no official statement on the cause of his death has been published. British authorities have accused Russian businessman Andrey Lugovoi and demanded his extradition. That request was refused, leading to a cooling in relations between Russia and Great Britain. Britain announced the expulsion of four Russian diplomats, and Russia responded with an analogical measure.
“We were very surprised by Scotland Yard's response about the inadequate completion of a number of investigative procedures on the territory of Great Britain that we requested of our colleagues. It was needed to verify information received by us in the course of the investigation and to develop all possible theories, for which we have quite a few arguments,” Mayorov said.
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