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Police to quiz poison suspects in Moscow [Prime suspect named]
The Times (UK) ^ | December 4, 2006 | by Daniel McGrory and Michael Evans

Scotland Yard detectives will fly out to Moscow this week to question a number of Russian businessmen who they believe include a leading suspect in the plot to poison Alexander Litvinenko.

Senior officers have briefed ministers on the man’s identity and on how he made several trips to London in the fortnight before the former Kremlin spy fell ill last month. Nine officers from Scotland Yard’s Counter-Terrorism Unit have been given permission to travel to Moscow by the Russian authorities and told that they will be shadowed by local police during their investigations.

Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB agent turned millionaire entrepreneur, is believed to be among five men the police want to meet. He made three trips to London from October 16 and met Mr Litvinenko four times in the days before the latter was fatally poisoned with polonium-210.

Mr Lugovoy has told The Times of sharing drinks and dining with Mr Litvinenko, including a meal they had in October at the same Piccadilly sushi bar where detectives believe the Russian dissident was poisoned on November 1.

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