but marina and others believe that the ultimat motive may not have been personal at all. rather it was all about money. we learned that in 2005 an 2006, litvinenko made multiple visits to spain, helping prosecutors take down a majo organized crime ring one that litvinenko publicly claimed had financial ties t president putin. putin s office has never responded to that allegation anne applebaum, a pulitzer prize-winning author, an exper on russia. i think that anything litvinenko was doing that came close to the source of putin s personal wealth, would hav been by far the most dangerous thing that he could do in addition to a possible motive, there was also the means. paul joyal says the fact tha polonium was used to kil litvinenko, leaves little doub as to who authorized the murder so, does that mean it would have to be putin it could ve been someone els
that s where investigators hit the jackpot. these 3d graphics put together by scotland yard show th entire pine bar wa contaminated with polonium with extreme hotspots on a table and cheer. and the levels found insid this teapot, off the charts. paul joyal wonders how man people were unwittingly expos. do we know ultimately wha the final cost of this use o polonium is? someone who is washing dishe in the pine bar, or in a hotel cleaning crew? five months after s death scotland yard issued an arrest warrant for lugovoi. kovtun would come later. the two responded with a press conference in moscow, statin their innocence. [speaking russian
consulting firm. he and litvinenko have bee talking about doing some business together in london. the two had met several time over the past year this time, lugovoi brought along a buddy. a man name dmitry kovtun he s the one in the blac turtleneck it was a quick meeting litvinenko drink just half a cup of tea then left around 5 pm, he caught a rid home that night, he fell ill. and three weeks later, he wa said so, who slipped litvinenko poison that day? putting his murder into motion litvinenko told scotland yar detectives before he died, h didn t know when or who ha poisoned him but he had no doubt that one o more of the man he had met tha day, the two russians or the italian, was his killer. naturally, we wanted to talk t all three. coming up - we track down the first suspec litvinenko named are you frightened for your life when dateline continues or an unbearable itch. this painful, blistering rash can disrupt your life for weeks. it could make your workday feel impossible.
kgb agent, may alexander litvinenko, who he says give him an important piece o advice never trust old friends. he said, some will will com from your past but you shouldn t trust him. because he will be your killer sasha told you? that sasha told me. which maybe what happened t litvinenko after all, andrei lugovoi was person from his past but as we ve seen, there were number of people i litvinenko s past who may have wanted him dead. the fsb colleagues h denounced. the russian mobsters he wa investigating. perhaps someone who thought he was a traitor for working with british intelligence for years now, litvinenko widow, marina, has been asking how bi was a conspiracy who was behind it? how high did it go dangerous questions that she knows better than anyone you think you play chess,
the order of merit to th fatherland, second class, fo his work in the duma you think russia will ever com clean and this will be known i believe, one day we wil know this. it will be very obvious fo people to decide and there years she s bee looking for answers, other questions have multiplied, other deaths have been recorded there was boris berezovsky, th russian oligarch litvinenk said he refused to assassinate another prominent critic o putin. in 2013, he was found dead i his london home. originally called a suicide, a judge said he couldn t rule ou murder the way he killed himself - he hanged himself with scarf? a scarf, in the bathroom. and the fact that his bodyguar was not there. it raises questions. in february, 2015, anothe putin critic, boris nemtsov, was gunned down in the shado of the kremlin the victim was about to lead a major rally against putin.