Russia, Moscow.
Former Russian Security Service (FSB) officer Andrey Lugovoy.
Photo: Alexey Kudenko
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Airborne Contamination by Polonium
Dmitry Kovtun and Andrey Lugovoy probably caught radiation from Alexander Litvinenko when they were meeting with him in London last year, Russia’s prosecutors said.
”The investigators have determined that Kovtun and Lugovoy could have been contaminated by Litvinenko during their meeting in the bar of Millennium Hotel on November 1,” Andrey Maiorov from the RF Prosecutor General Office told Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Litvinenko wasn’t far from his interlocutors during the talk, the official said, adding that Kovtun suffered contamination of greater extent, as he was closer to Litvinenko and the dose rate was higher.
According to Maiorov, Britain’s prosecutors provided the very minimum of files under the Litvinenko case. No inspection protocols, expert conclusions and other files with data of equal vitality have been ever submitted. “Speaking formally, we even don’t know the cause of his death. The documents provided by Britain don’t specify it for some reason.”
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