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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.
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.
