British detectives, after weeks of investigation, reportedly are "100 percent" certain they know who poisoned Russian spy-turned-reporter Alexander Litvinenko.
Litvinenko died Nov. 23 in a London hospital after being exposed to radioactive polonoium-210. Scotland Yard sent nine detectives to Moscow before Christmas to conduct interviews and they are to submit their report to the Crown Prosecution Service, the Mirror reported Monday.
"We are 100 percent sure who administered the poison, where and how," a police source told the newspaper, which said that Russian authorities were not likely to send the two suspected killers to Britain for trial.
"Both claim to have been contaminated as victims of the plot," the Mirror quoted the source as saying. "The view in Moscow is that we have the wrong men."
The Independent said Litvinenko may have been poisoned days earlier than previously thought and could have been exposed to radioactive material twice. Two Russian businessmen, one a former KGB officer and the other a former Soviet soldier, were subjects of Scotland Yard's investigation.
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