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Russian detectives for London

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Russian investigators may fly to London later this week to pursue their own probe into the radioactive poisoning of former security agent Alexander Litvinenko, investigation sources said here as a joint team of Russian and British detectives questioned a key witness in the case in a Moscow hospital on Monday. Russian wire services quoted prosecution sources as saying that Russian investigators planned to fly to Britain together with Scotland Yard detectives who are currently working in Moscow.

Russian and British investigators on Monday visited a Moscow hospital to question Mr. Andrei Lugovoi, an ex-security agent turned businessman who met Litvinenko on the day he is believed to have been mortally poisoned with the radioactive isotope polonium-210 on November 1.

Last week, the investigators twice questioned Mr. Lugovoi's friend and colleague, Mr. Dmitry Kovtum.

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