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| Police hand over Litvinenko file | Police hand over Litvinenko file |
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| Scotland Yard has handed a file on the investigation into the death of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko to the Crown Prosecution Service. | |
| The 43-year-old, a fierce critic of the Kremlin, died in hospital in London in November last year. His body contained the radioactive substance polonium-210. | |
| Police have said they cannot reveal the contents of the file. | Police have said they cannot reveal the contents of the file. |
| Prosecutors will now consider whether there is sufficient evidence to charge anyone over Mr Litvinenko's death. | |
| Secret agents | |
| Mr Litvinenko is reported to have fallen out with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the late 1990s. | Mr Litvinenko is reported to have fallen out with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the late 1990s. |
| At the end of last year, Scotland Yard officers travelled to Russia to question witnesses in the case. | |
| Mr Litvinenko, a former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, met three other former Russian secret agents just before he fell ill in London - Dmitry Kovtun, Andrei Lugovoi and Vyacheslav Sokolenko. They have denied any involvement in his poisoning. | |
| His friends have accused the Kremlin of ordering his assassination in response to his criticism of President Vladimir Putin. The Russian government has rejected the claims. |