LONDON: The most sensational spy tale since the Cold War lands in a London court on Tuesday as an inquiry begins to examine alleged Russian state involvement in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko.
The former agent with Russia’s FSB security service, who was doing work for Britain’s MI6, was killed with Polonium-210 and the case was referred to at the time as the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
British investigators believe that the hard-to-detect radioactive isotope was stirred into Litvinenko’s tea by two acquaintances who were visiting him from Moscow, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, at a meeting in …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
