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Detectives dont believe lugovois denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once. thats because they found polonium on the table in a conference room where he and litvinenko had met two weeks before the pine bar encounter. was anything spilled on the table? >> translator: richard, you are asking questions. i remember some things. i dont remember other things. i cannot answer these questions because these can be used against me in the court, which is done frequently. >> re...

>> well -- do you have another question? >> reporter: scotland yard questioned scaramella and eventually cleared him. why? because if youre looking for it, polonium is traceable. using specialized equipment, investigators were able to track it in people and in places. >> once polonium 210 had been identified, then across europe, like the slime from a slug all the way across, polonium was popping up everywhere. >> reporter: but not in scaramella. no polonium in his body or anywhere hed been. so s...

Expensively, more cost effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> reporter: why not just shoot him? >> i didnt say they would have done. they could possibly. we -- >> could possibly have done -- >> we -- we dont do that sort of thing. >> reporter: also remember, litvinenko was working for mi-6 and it was lugovoi and his partner dmitri kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar. lugovoi is hardly hiding here in ru...

Have never been friends. he was a very complicated person, slightly crazy, i would say. he was given to conspiracy theories, to blowing things up out of all proportion. >> reporter: he and litvinenko both used to work for the fsb. both had served time in jail. it was a bond between them. lugovoi had done very well in business after that and opened a security consulting firm. he says he and litvinenko met several times in london to discuss doing business there together, including that now infamou...

Contaminated with polonium, and with extreme hot spots on a table and chair. and the levels were also found inside this teapot off the charts. paul joyal wonders how many people were unwittingly exposed. >> do we know, ultimately, what the final cost of this use of polonium is? >> someone who was washing dishes in the pine bar or in a hotel cleaning crew. do we know, ultimately? >> reporter: five months after litvinenkos death, scotland yard issued an arrest warrant for lugovoy. kovtuns would co...

It in people and places. >> once polonium -210 had been identified, then across europe like the slime from a slug all the way across, polonium was popping up everywhere. but not in scaramella. no polonium in his body or anywhere hed been. so scotland yard took a hard look at the two russians, lugovoy and kovtun. >> reporter: when detectives retraced their steps, they found polonium contamination everywhere. >> we see the same fingerprints of the polonium in multiple places where they were. busin...

Did you put any polonium in the tea? >> of course not. i was tested for polonium, and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an idiot? am i crazy? >> reporter: but scotland yard detectives dont believe lugovois denials. in fact, they think he tried kill litvinenko more than once. thats because they found polonium on the table in a conference room where he and litvinenko had met two weeks before the pine bar encounter. was anything spilled on the table? >> richard, you are asking...

>> if the british wanted to kill him, then he would have fallen out of a hotel window. he would have been placed in front of a car. wed have spent $12 million in a slightly more cost-effective fashion. >> reporter: you would have made it look like an accident? >> indeed. things are done less expensively, more cost effectively. old fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> reporter: why not just shoot him? >> i didnt say they would have done. they could possibly. >...

Using specialized equipment investigators were able to track it in people and in places. >> once polonium 210 had been identified then across europe like the slime from a slug all the way across polonium was popping up everywhere. >> but not in scaramela. no polonium in his body or anywhere he had been. so scotland yard took a hard look at the two russians. when detectives retraced their steps they found polonium contamination everywhere. >> we see the same finger prints of the polonium in multi...

I was tested for polonium and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an idiot? am i crazy? >> scotland yards detectives dont believe his denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once. thats because they found polonium on the table in a conference room where he and litvinenko had met two weeks before the pine bar encounter. >> was anything spilled on the table? >> translator: richard, youre asking questions. i remember some things. i dont remember other ...