Germans Are Probing Russian in Poison Case

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MOSCOW -- German authorities announced on Sunday that they had begun a criminal investigation of a Russian businessman after finding traces of polonium 210 around Hamburg beginning on Oct. 28 - - four days before he met in London with the former Russian spy who died after ingesting the radioactive substance.

The British police have so far found no evidence of polonium contamination in London earlier than the date of that meeting, Nov. 1. The Sunday announcement raised the possibility that the polonium was carried from Moscow to London by way of Germany. It has also added to suspicions that the case is somehow connected to the shadowy world of agents and businessmen, defectors, spies and exiles let loose by the dissolution of the KGB and still entwined with successor agencies.

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Germans Are Probing Russian in Poison Case

The former Russian spy, Alexander V. Litvinenko, long a critic of Russia's president...

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