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A agência interna da segurança de Rússia lançou uma investigação do espionage na base das indicações pelo suspeito principal no envenenamento do radioation de Alexander Litvinenko, um espião Russian anterior.

O serviço de segurança federal (FSB) abriu o caso após ter avaliado a evidência de Andrei Lugovoi, agências de notícia Russian ditas em sexta-feira.

“Após a análise das indicações pelo homem de negócios Russian Andrei Lugovoi, o departamento investigative do FSB… abriu um caso criminal devido à evidência do espionage,” uma indicação de FSB dita.

Os prosecutors britânicos pediram que Rússia entregue Lugovoi excedente às cargas da cara sobre a morte de Litvinenko.

Litvinenko, um agente anterior de FSB, morrido em Londres o ano passado após ser envenenado com polonium-210, um isotope altamente radioativo.

Investigation ‘material’

The FSB statement did not state that the investigation related to the death of Litvinenko, and did not name any suspects.

However, it appeared to refer to “material” that Lugovoi said at a news conference last month he will soon present to Russian security services.

Russia has repeatedly refused to hand over Lugovoi to Britain.

Lugovoi denies involvement in the killing and alleges that it was carried out either by Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, the Russian mafia, or Boris Berezovsky, a former Russian agent who is now an exiled opponent of the Kremlin.

He has suggested that Berezovsky and Litvinenko were working for MI6.

“It is hard to escape the thought that Litvinenko had become an agent who had escaped the control of the special services and they took him out,” Lugovoi said in May.

British suspicion fell on Lugovoi and an associate, Dmitry Kovtun, after it emerged that both met Litvinenko in a London hotel on November 1, the day he fell ill.

The men left traces of the radioactive isotope used in Litvinenko’s killing in various locations as they returned to Russia.

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