A Russian who met Alexander Litvinenko in London with the man British authorities accuse of murdering the former KGB spy said in an interview that he could also be accused.

A Russian who met Alexander Litvinenko in London with the man British authorities accuse of murdering the former KGB spy said in an interview broadcast tonight that he could also be accused.

A Russian who met Alexander Litvinenko in London with the man British authorities accuse of murdering the former KGB spy said in an interview broadcast tonight that he could also be accused.

The British ambassador today handed Russian authorities a request for the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, the suspect in the killing of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a British Embassy spokesperson said.

Two exiled Kremlin adversaries refused to answer key questions posed by Russian authorities probing the poisoning death of former security agent Alexander Litvinenko, a Russia investigator said in an interview published today.

TWO businessmen who had met with former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko in London on the day he fell ill said yesterday they would seek compensation from a charity created by his friends and widow.

The man reported to be a suspect in the murder of a former Russian agent in London hit out today at “lies, provocation and government propaganda”, denying any role in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko.

Russia will soon send a team to Britain to investigate the poisoning death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, the country’s top prosecutor said today in a television interview.

A businessman linked to the poisoning death of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko today said he had been released from a Moscow hospital where he was reportedly being treated for radiation exposure.

A key witness in the poisoning death of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko today faced a second round of questioning by British investigators, news reports said.

A key witness in the investigation into the radiation death of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko denied involvement in the poisoning today, saying he is being unjustly accused in the media.

A key witness in the radiation death of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko claimed the poisoning took place earlier than is widely believed, a newspaper in Russia reported today.

Interpol has joined the investigation into the killing of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Interfax news agency reported today.

GERMAN investigators have confirmed a car used by a contact of a fatally poisoned ex-KGB agent before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, police said.

The former wife of a Russian businessman in the focus of investigations surrounding the fatal poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, along with three relatives, are being tested for radiation contamination, German police said today.

German authorities say they are investigating Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun on suspicion that he may have improperly handled radioactive material before he met ex-spy Alexander Litvenenko in London.

Family and friends of poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are unlikely to cooperate with a Russian investigation into his death, it was claimed tonight.

German authorities said today they have found traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 at an apartment visited by a contact of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko before they met in London.

German airline Germanwings said today that an aircraft on board which a contact of dead Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko flew to London was being tested for possible traces of the radioactive substance polonium-210.

German police said today that they had found traces of radiation at two sites in and near Hamburg linked to a contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

A SECOND Russian businessman who met murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill is sick from radiation poisoning, local media quoted medical sources as saying yesterday.

Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun, a key figure in the poisoning investigation of ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko, is in a coma, a Russian news agency said today, but a lawyer close to the case denied the report.

Russia has opened a criminal case in the poisoning death of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko and for the attempted killing of associate Dmitry Kovtun, the Prosecutor General’s office said today.

Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died last month after being poisoned, was scheduled to be buried in London today, his friends said.

Russian investigators said they have begun questioning in the radiation poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, a case that has left radiation traces from a London soccer stadium to the British Embassy in Moscow.

Experts have found minor traces of radiation at the British Embassy in Moscow but they presented no health risk to the public, an embassy spokesman said today.

A Russian man who met with Alexander Litvinenko on the day that the former KGB spy believed he was poisoned today said he had been questioned by British officials in Moscow, and again denied any involvement in his death.