Italian security expert met with poisoned ex-Russian spy

An Italian security expert today confirmed he met with a former Russian spy in London before the outspoken critic of the Kremlin was taken seriously ill with what British police and doctors suspect is poisoning by a toxic metal.

Mario Scaramella told a news conference in Rome he met with Col. Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken former KGB and Federal Security Service agent, at a sushi restaurant in the early afternoon of November 1 to discuss information on the killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.