Investigators confirm German link to poisoning

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.

Still unknown is whether the Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun was involved in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, or a victim of it. He is reportedly being treated in Moscow for radiation poisoning.

Russian news agencies reported British police in Russia and their Russian counterparts questioned another Russian at the November 1 meeting, Andrei Lugovoi, at a Moscow hospital that specialising in treating radiation. Kovtun is believed to be at the hospital.