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Scott had never told anyone to verify, but he did so on the basis of instinct. He asked them for names. One spoke English and introduced himself as Andrej Lugovoy. He said his friend was Dmitry Kovtun. He didn't say anything. It seemed only Russian. Scott quickly took their photos with high resolution.

Lugovoy said he owned the company ãobal Projectı and his friend was a member of the finance department at Moscow's prestigious bank. Their travel agent booked two nights at the Best Western Hotel in Shaftesbury Avenue. The hotel wasn't available: 300 pounds per night.

Lugovoy showed the original reservation. However, Scott had the impression that something with their answers was not right: “As if they were away from questions about why they had come to Britain”. It was common for those who stopped in London to talk about families, vacation plans, and ugly weather in England. Both Russians, on the contrary, were very cautious. When I asked the questions, I did not answer the answers I wanted to hear or what I expected to hear. They answered very, very short, “said Scott. Their answers offered no information.

Scott requested the internet, but couldn't find the Global Project. The Russians told him they had a working meeting at Continent Petroleum Limited at Grosvenor Street 58 in London. Scott called the company, there they responded and confirmed that both were registered to British financial authorities. All right. The detective then searched the police database, but found nothing. Nor at British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6.

Having no evidence to continue, Scott heard his boss telling him to let the Russians go away. The British police system is based on the assumption of innocence, compared to Russia, the homeland of Lugovoj and Kovtun, where judges receive unofficial instructions from the highest levels.

But after more than a month later, Scotland Yard faced an unprecedented international state of horror, he realized that Scott's feelings were appropriate. Both were not business people. They were killers. Their story was just a cover. They had been trained several months earlier, perhaps for years. And it paid off.

That morning, Lugovoy and Kovtun in Great Britain introduced something that the responsible bodies failed to detect. It wasn't drugs or a lot of money. Something so rare and unusual that has never been seen in that form before in Europe or the United States. It was very expensive poison. Toxina began her secret journey to London from a secret nuclear facility in southwest Siberia.

High-tech kill technology invisible. Lugovovoy and Kovtun were to use it for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian immigrant who came to Britain six years ago. He had become a constant source of Russian government problems. He was a ruthless critic of Vladimir Putin, the Russian secret police officer who became president. By 2006, Litvinenko was a growing disorder, as many opposition sources in Russia were suppressed.

There was a particular reason why Putin might want Litvinenko's death. Before leaving in 2000, Litvinenko worked for the FSB and now Litvinenko had another employer: British Intelligence Agency MI6. Her Majesty's government gave him a forged passport, a protected mobile phone and a salary of 2,000 pounds a month, which it received in an anonymous account at HSBC. He had a secret name in MI6, Martini. Litvinenko wasn't James Bond.

But he conveyed sensitive information to British intelligence for Russian mafia groups and their ties to Europe, as well as for powerful people from the highest Russian government, such as Putin. According to Litvinenko, the Russian ministers and the mafia were essentially part of the same criminal organisation. It was his claim that the criminal organisation had replaced the dysfunctional ideology of communism.

Litvinenko knew about mafia activities in Spain; he was, as evidenced by one of his friends, a encyclopedia that had walked into organized crime, to such an extent that MI6 had lent it to Spanish colleagues in Madrid for a time. All this made Litvinenko a traitor and the KGB's condemnation of treason against the homeland was clear.

From the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Moscow used poison, bullets, bombs hidden in sweets and other deadly methods to remove its enemies, ranging from Leon Trocki to Georgi Markov, the Bulgarian dissident and the poisoned writer on the Waterloo Bridge in 1978, killing it with the top of the umbrella containing recin.

Stalin said “There's no one, there's a problem” It turned into a spectre. It started from murders that were demonstration to those where KGB tracks couldn't be found.

Boris Jelcin interrupted such methods in the post-communist years, but as Putin's arrival, they returned.

The mission of Lugovoy and Kovtun in London should be accurate and elusive. The idea was for no one to notice the Russian visit. Once they poisoned their victim, they would flee to Moscow, leaving rare tracks on the surface of living London. Their objectives, of course, would be lethal, but the Kremlin's hand will remain secret. The British would view Litvinenko's death as a result of gastroenters, those who committed the murder could return to their anonymity from shadows. And you can imagine the reward. As for Kovtun, it was about an apartment in Moscow. It just didn't work that way.

Mr Litvinenko was allegedly investigating Spanish connections with the Russian mafia and was planning to fly to Spain with Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in connection with his murder.

At a hotel in London on November 1, 2006, he had tea with Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun. Litvinenko got sick later and spent the night in vomiting. Three days later, he was admitted to Barnett General Hospital in North London, where his condition gradually became disturbing. On November 23rd, life change, broadcast BBC.

The investigation into the Russian poisoning project cost a million pounds. Many facts were gathered by city police; by hotels, restaurants, car places, and even at the night club that murderers visited in Soho. Scotland Yard has managed to rebuild the events before the murders minutes in a minute.

Locations that proved positive with traces of the radioactive substance that poisoned Litvinenko during his meeting with Lugovoi and Kovtun include the Millennium Hotel, the Abracadabra nightclub and the Emirates Stadium in London, where Lugovoi had attended the Arsenal meeting - CSKA Moscow.

The tracks were also found on two planes at Heathrow Airport, the British Embassy in Moscow, and at a residence in Hamburg, Germany, where Kovtun had stayed.

About 700 people were tested for radioactive poisoning, but none of them had serious signs, the Kosovas broadcast.