An Italian security expert who met with a former KGB agent the day the ex-spy fell fatally ill with radiation poisoning has also tested positive for the substance, British media reported Friday.
Britain's Health Protection Agency confirmed that one person has tested positive for the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko, but declined to identify the person.
Sky Television and the British Broadcasting Corp. reported that the Italian, Mario Scaramella, tested positive for a significant amount of polonium-210, the rare radioactive isotope that was found in Litvinenko's body.
Scaramella met with Litvinenko at a sushi bar in London on Nov. 1 - the day the former intelligence agent first reported the symptoms that ultimately led to his death at a central London hospital.
Scaramella has said he showed Litvinenko e-mails from a confidential source listing potential targets for assassination, including himself and Litvinenko, AP reported.
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