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Russia rejects Britain's request for Lugovoy extradition (2) |
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10:23, July 06, 2007 |
Prosecutor General Yury Chaika made it clear that Russia could prosecute Lugovoi if the British provided evidence of his guilt that Russian prosecutors found convincing enough.
Litvinenko died of radioactive poisoning, the Polonium 210, in London on Nov. 23. Experts investigating his death have found radiation traces at a dozen locations and on two British Airways planes that flew the Moscow-London route.
Lugovoi, also a former Soviet KGB agent, was a business partner of Litvinenko and had met the latter in a London hotel on Nov. 1. Litvinenko fell ill on that day and died weeks later in a London hospital.
Litvinenko, who was a strong critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused the Kremlin of orchestrating his poisoning just before his death. Moscow vehemently denies the charge.
The former agent, who had been arrested several times, fled to Britain with his wife and son in November 2000 and was granted asylum. He became a British citizen several weeks before his death.
Source: Xinhua
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