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This is an archive article published on January 14, 2007

Russian experts to investigate Litvinenko’s murder in UK

Russian investigators will go to Britain to investigate the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko...

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Russian investigators will go to Britain to investigate the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, said Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika on Sunday .

“We have established good and constructive relations with British experts and signed a cooperation agreement with them,” Chaika said in an interview on Russian state television “Rossiya.”

He said Russian investigators are preparing for a trip to Britain to inspect some venues, the place of poisoning and attend interrogations to be held by their British colleagues.

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Litvinenko, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 and died in a London hospital, last November.

A team of Scotland Yard detectives and officials from the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office have been investigating the case in London and Moscow, where key witnesses, agents-turned-businessmen Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, were based.

Lugovoi and Kovtun met with Litvinenko in a London hotel shortly before he was hospitalised with symptoms of poisoning, and themselves underwent radiation checks. Both have denied any involvement in Litvinenko’s murder.

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