Russian investigators said Germany had handed them documents related to the 2006 murder by polonium poisoning of Russian spy
defector Alexander Litvinenko in central London, reported dpa. German police were involved in the
investigation when Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun, now living in Germany, was found to have met with Litvinenko on the day his poisoning with radioactive
polonium-210.
The documents were delivered "in response to a request from Russia to provide the Russian investigation with certain materials on the criminal
case," Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Investigation Committee of the
Russian Prosecutor General's Office, said Thursday.
Material compiled by German investigators related to an attempt on Kovtun's
life, Markin said.
British detectives suspect Kovtun's business partner, another ex- secret
service agent Andrey Lugovoi, but Moscow has refused London's requests for his
extradition and in December Lugovoi was elected a member of parliament,
granting him immunity. dpa adc sc
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