MSNBC/AP/Reuters: Italian character Mario Scaramella who met with Litvinenko at a London sushi bar the day he fell ill tests positive for polonium toxin. Prior to his lunch with Scaramella, Litvinenko met three Russian security consultants at a London hotel bar. One of those Russians he met with worked previously as a body guard for Russian reformer Yegor Gaidar, who has also fallen inexplicably ill on a trip to Ireland and is now recovering in a Moscow hospital. That Russian body guard Andrei Lugovoy says he appears to have been framed. His business partners, Dmitry Kovtun and Vyacheslav Sokolenko, also came to London on separate flights to watch a Russian-UK soccer match. More here.

Posted by Laura at December 1, 2006 10:34 AM