he was once a kgb agent, bu turned into a local critic o russia when he was poisoned an london and made headline around the world a lethal toxin in a cup of tea it was a dirty bomb why was he killed to unravel the mystery, we follow the tail of a darke conspiracy are you threatened for your life we will meet and confront the prime suspect. did you put - in the teens and now, is the dange coming closer one man said shoe temp. an attack on the expert helping us with the story. people say this is neve going to happen here i know it can happen, here because it happened to m husband. hello, and welcome to dateline former russian agent alexander was a vocal critic of th russian government, but in his world access to informatio could make you a very rich man or a dead one. his murder set off a international investigation to discover who wanted hi silenced here s richard engel with sp games. a former russian agent, poisoned a multi millionaire found dead in
then finally, sat down with us what did you think o litvinenko were you friendly. would you consider yoursel friends? i have always said that w have never been friends. he was a very complicate person slightly crazy, i would say. he was given to conspiracy theories to blowing things up out of al proportions. he and litvinenko both used to work for the fsb. both had served time in jail it was a bond between them had lugovoi done very well i business after that and open a security consulting firm he says he and litvinenko me several times in london to discuss doing business there together including that now infamou meeting in the pine bar, wer scotland yard says litvinenk was poisoned lugovoi says the meeting was n big deal so what do you remember abou sitting there at the table i remember that we talked with litvinenko about nothin in particular. and now for eight years, i a