been so skittish [speaking italian how to describe scaramella? he s a lawyer. an academic. a security analyst and also someone litvinenk never completely trusted scaramella, you ll remember, i the contact litvinenko met a the sushi bar on the way day h was poisoned litvinenko thought yo poisoned him yes you didn t poison him absolutely not. from his perspective, i does make sense. no, sure. everything is very strange had scaramella been working for the italian government and sometimes used litvinenko as a source for investigations into the russian mob and spy rings. he was giving you names of russian mafia members? yes you are connected to th intelligence service exactly something that was short to upset both the mobsters and th fsb. scaramella told us that in
to call his business partner a former russian spy master. i warned him, i was shot. so, if you re warning you russian business partner tha you ve been shot you clearly didn t think the this was a botched robbery o car jacking? you thought this was related t your work? related to your russia connections? i don t think there s any doubt. someone had tried to kill him, just like the other guy i london the other guy a former kgb agent and frien of joyal s killed three months earlier in london. assassinated with a weapon s frightening and exotic investigators almost missed it a weapon that raise the specte of state sponsored murder. coming up - we trace the steps of mysterious attack from bus t barr, to deathbed. he was going throug unspeakable torment. when dateline continues in a few minutes will lan in london s heathrow airport we don t know why and who was behind it. american intelligence exper
findings and investigating tha leak now back to dateline in the dead of winter, 2015 we arrived in moscow, in effor to find out not only who kille former russian agent alexander litvinenko, but why. this is home to andrei lugovoi and dmitry kovtun. hunted by both scotland yard and interpol, suspected of killing litvinenko around the world, they wer villains in a tale o international intrigue and murder yet here in russia, we found plenty of people who thought i the two did kill litvinenko, h probably had it come in coming thank you very much for talking to us. in the duma, russia s parliament, the pugnacious leader of the ultra nationalis party has nothing but disdai for litvinenko who needs this little petty
duma leader, zhirinovsky certainly did shed any tears when that happened but last of the notion that the russia state with connected in an way. fourth one simple reason he thinks russian agents would have done a better job and surprised that the uk special services and the u court accuses russia that with a bag of polonium they came to london and we re just throwing it around. it just doesn t make sens to a lot of people that russia didn t kill him. for 100 years, the russia special services have been using that kind of substance for killing people that yo never will be able t recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of bar and put it i someone s tea cup and everybod is laughing at us? i mean, the state cannot b emboldened litvinenko s friend pau joyal, who believes he was a target of a botche assassination, agrees that i some ways, litvinenko s killer were indeed clumsy and careless but he says, that s becaus
lugovoi is hardly hiding her in russia. he did our interview in one of the restaurants that he owns he s a member of parliament. and he s even become something of a pop culture icon. hosting his own tv show. the program program, appropriately enough, called traitors it names and shames individual who are supposedly enemies o the russian state. lugovoi s high profile here is just one reason that man people who suspect him o murder don t think he acted on his own. another reason, all of the polonium 210 in russia is unde the control of the state it s impossible to use state controlled substance lik this without the knowledge o the very top of the country. because you re unleashing a radioactive substance? it s almost a tiny little dirt bomb it s nuclear terrorism. of all his enemies, litvinenko may have infuriated one more than any other. coming up i have said that this is