Second man who met ex-spy suffers radiation poisoning

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.

Andrei Lugovoy has damage to vital organs consistent with exposure to dangerous levels of radiation, the same condition that killed Kremlin critic Mr Litvinenko in London on November 23.

Mr Lugovoy’s business partner Dmitry Kovtun is also in hospital and Mario Scaramella, an Italian contact of Mr Litvinenko, has undergone treatment in London for the effects of contamination.