Andrey Lugovoy denies any involvement in the murder of Litvinenko and offers to cooperate with the British police.
Photo: Alexey Kudenko
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Scotland Yard Looks for Clues in Litvinenko’s Death in Russia
The post-mortem examination on the deceased political émigré Alexander Litvinenko was completed in a London hospital on Friday. The results that could reveal the cause of the ex-FSB agent’s death will be released in two weeks. The British police are currently investigating the possible Russian trace in the murder. Andrey Lugovoy, former FSB officer, who met Litvinenko shortly before his illness is now under suspicion.
Results of the post-mortem at the Royal London Hospital will be available in two weeks. Litvinenko, an ex-FSB officer and vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died last week of radiation poisoning attributed to the highly toxic polonium-210. Polonium-210 was discovered in his body, with more traces found at venues he visited in London on 1 November.
The probe into his death has seen two planes tested positive for radiation and a third is flying back from Moscow for checks. The British police believe that polonium-210 may have been carried to Britain on the British Airways flight on October 25 which Andrey Lugovoy, Litvinenko’s friend, took to come to London. Traces of radiation have been found onboard.
Lugovoy denies any involvement in the case and offers to cooperate with the British police. The businessman told Kommersant that he had called investigators at Scotland Yard. The officers told him, however, that they had been looking for him for ten days. “It is really weird because I went to see representatives of the UK embassy right after Alexander Litvinenko’s death and expressed willingness to answer any questions of the police.”
Litvinenko’s contact Mario Scaramella and his wife have both tested positive for polonium-210. British press reported yesterday that the polonium found in Britain was produced at the Zheleznogorsky mining combine outside Krasnoyarsk. Representatives of the enterprise said, however, that this isotope “has never been used in technological chains of the plant.”
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Dec. 02, 2006
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