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scaramella says that s why he met with litvinenko in london, to tell him about the hit list, to warn him. but, he says, litvinenko didn t buy it. he said, mario, don t care about that. he says it s b.s. i think it s just a provocation, but please check what s happening. but after what happened to litvinenko, scaramella says he takes the hit list seriously. are you frightened for your life? well do you have another question? scotland yard questioned scaramella and eventually cleared him. why? because if you re looking for it, polonium is traceable. using specialized equipment, investigators were able to track it in people and in places. once polonium 210 had been identified, then across europe, like the slime from a slug all the way across, polonium was popping up everywhere. but not in scaramella. no polonium in his body or anywhere he d been.
a buddy, a man named dmitri kovtun. he s the one in the black turtleneck. it was a quick meeting. litvinenko drank just half a cup of tea then left. around 5:00 p.m. he caught a ride home. that night, he fell ill. and three weeks later, he was dead. so who slipped litvinenko poison that day putting his murder into motion? litvinenko told scotland yard detectives before he died he didn t know when or who had poisoned him. but he had no doubt that one or more of the men he had met that day, the two russians or the italian, was his killer. naturally, we wanted to talk to all three. coming up, we track down the first suspect litvinenko named. are you frightened for your life? when dateline continues. lie
a fight litvinenko would lose. we re sorry to announce that alexander litvinenko died at university college hospital at 9:21 on the 23rd of november, 2006. but in the days just before his death, litvinenko did something remarkable. he knew he was dying and decided to help scotland yard detectives solve his murder. he gave them a series of deathbed interviews. the transcripts provide a remarkably detailed account of his movements on the day he was poisoned. litvinenko s account starts at 10:00 a.m. when he received a phone call from an italian contact, mario scaramella, who d just arrived in london and insisted he needed to meet litvinenko immediately. he said he had urgent news. they agreed to meet that afternoon. at 12:29, litvinenko caught this bus to the east finchley
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