several times in london to discuss doing business there together including that now infamous meeting in the pine bar where scotland yard says litvinenko was poisoned. lugovoi says the meeting was no big deal. so what do you remember about sitting there at the table? translator: i remember that we talked with litvinenko about nothing in particular. and now for eight years, i am under suspicion. you re under suspicion because the investigation says there was polonium in that teapot. did you put any polonium in the tea? translator: of course not. i was tested for polonium, and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an idiot? am i crazy? but scotland yard detectives don t believe lugovoi s denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once. that s because they found polonium on the table in a
business after that and opened a security consulting firm. he says he and litvinenko met several times in london to discuss doing business there together including that now infamous meeting in the pine bar where scotland yard says litvinenko was poisoned. lugovoi says the meeting was no big deal. so what do you remember about sitting there at the table? translator: i remember that we talked with litvinenko about nothing in particular. and now for eight years, i am under suspicion. reporter: you re under suspicion because the investigation says there was polonium in that teapot. did you put any polonium in the tea? translator: of course not. i was tested for polonium, and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an idiot? am i crazy? reporter: but scotland yard detectives don t believe lugovoi s denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once.
he says he and litvinenko met several times in london to discuss doing business there together including that now infamous meeting in the pine bar where scotland yard says litvinenko was poisoned. lugovoi says the meeting was no big deal. so what do you remember about sitting there at the table? translator: i remember that we talked with litvinenko about nothing in particular. and now for eight years, i am under suspicion. reporter: you re under suspicion because the investigation says there was polonium in that teapot. did you put any polonium in the tea? translator: of course not. i was tested for polonium, and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an idiot? am i crazy? reporter: but scotland yard detectives don t believe lugovoi s denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once.
lugovoi had done very well in business after that and opened a security consulting firm. he says he and litvinenko met several times in london to discuss doing business there together including that now infamous meeting in the pine bar where scotland yard says litvinenko was poisoned. lugovoi says the meeting was no big deal. so what do you remember about sitting there at the table? translator: i remember that we talked with litvinenko about nothing in particular. and now for eight years, i am under suspicion. reporter: you re under suspicion because the investigation says there was polonium in that teapot. did you put any polonium in the tea? translator: of course not. i was tested for polonium, and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an idiot? am i crazy? reporter: but scotland yard detectives don t believe lugovoi s denials.
detectives don t believe lugovoi s denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once. that s because they found polonium on the table in a conference room where he and litvinenko had met two weeks before the pine bar encounter. was anything spilled on the table? translator: richard, you are asking questions. i remember some things. i don t remember other things. i cannot answer these questions because these can be used against me in the court, which is done frequently. reporter: as for his last meeting with litvinenko at the pine bar, lugovoi says there s no way he brought polonium on that trip because his wife and children were with him. translator: a person s weakest spot is his family. and i m a rational man. even if i had taken part in an operation, even if i had known what was in the container, would i take my family along? i m a rational man.