Russia when he was poisoned in london that made headlines around the world. A lethal toxin in a Cup Of Tea. Why was he killed . To unravel the mystery, we followed the tale of a dark conspiracy. Are you frightened for your life . Meet and confront the prime suspect. And now, is the danger coming closer . Were the men in the bushes . People say it will never happen here. I know what can happen here because it happened to my husband. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Former russian Agent Alexander Litvinenko was a vocal critic of the russian government. In his world, access to information could make you a rich man or a dead one. His murders set off an international investigation to discover who wanted him silenced. Here is Richard Engel with spy games. A former russian agent poisoned. A multimillionaire found dead in his bathroom. Investigative reporter executed in front of her home. Their lives have been interconnected but what about their deaths . Random acts or some suspect part of an international Murder Conspiracy that stretches across two continents and several world capitals. We will investigate who wanted them dead and why. The case will take us from moscow to rome To London into a world of spies and spy catchers, Corruption Of Those Who Dare to expose it. A world in which murder happens often. Was there a Hit List . Im sure there was. Our story begins closer to home. On a late Winter Evening Paul joyal was driving to his house just outside of washington, d. C. It was quiet and dark i got in my car, two men waiting in the bushes, they jumped me and one man i fought with. We ended up on the ground in a tussle in this one man said to someone else i did not see, shoot him. So, i covered my heart, i turn to the side and a shot went through me. One shot and then i heard the click and another click. Nothing happened. You are shot once. Rolling to protect yourself. I hear a chamber to clear it, the gun jammed and at that point the lights went on in my house. His wife elizabeth open the door and saw her husband. Hes wearing a raincoat, sued, and had. He is doubled over. You can see he is in pain and he looks at me and says i have been shot. The assailant had fled. Elizabeth got him inside and called 911. As soon as the 911 call was done, i asked my son to lift my legs up because i wanted to make sure the blood stays in the body. You dont lose consciousness. Elizabeth is a Registered Nurse in the training kicked in. There was no signs of external bleeding at that point. That freaked me out too. I know if hes not bleeding on the outside its bleeding on the inside. An ambulance arrived and rushed joyal to the hospital. The nine millimeter bullet had torn through his bladder and intestine. They had to place him in a drug induced coma to save his life. He was unconscious for one month. Local Law Enforcement initially assumed it was a botched Robbery But Elizabeth believed otherwise. I didnt want to seem like this crazy conspiracy theory woman, but i knew it was not a carjacking. Theres just no way that it was some random guy. It had to have been a planned attack. Because nothing was stolen and the assailants had clearly been lying in wait. Which is why when joyal came stumbling into the house with a bullet wound, he told his wife to call his Business Partner, a former russian spy master. To warn him i was shot. If your warning you russian Business Partner you have been shot, you did not think this was a botched robbery. Carjacking. You thought this was related to your work, your russian connections. I dont think theres any doubt. Someone tried to kill him just like the other guy in london. The other guy . A former Kgb Agent and friend of joyals killed three months earlier in london. 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His interest in fighting corruption had made him a lot of enemies including in his own agency, the kgb, which was renamed. Litvinenko was forced to flee russia with his wife and son. Seek asylum in london we quickly caught the attention of agents of the british Intelligence Service mi six. He was a Retired A very charming mi six analyst who was asked to befriend litvinenko. The british wanted to find out what he knew about his former colleagues in the russian secret service. Was he credible . Oh, yes, he was. Credible enough that they began paying him a monthly Salary Trading Information for money was when we for former russian agent to make a living in his new home in london. Then, suddenly in 2006 litvinenko who would always been fit and healthy got very sick. It was incredibly strong and have a sickness just suddenly and not stopping. Litvinenkos wife watched him waste away in a matter of just days. It was awful. His hair started to to fallout. Yes, and he started looking like a Cancer Patient treated by chemotherapy. He was going through unspeakable torment. The doctors suspected he may have thallium and treated with an antidote. Finally we know what happened to sasha. Under control and he was safe. It wasnt under control. The antidote did not work. Litvinenko didnt get better but got worse. Before long, even close friends could barely recognize him. I said to myself, why is this happening to this young, healthy, handsome athletic man . Whats going on . He is fighting for his life. A fight he would lose. We are sorry to announce Alexander Litvinenko died at University College Hospital On 9 23rd of november, 2006. In the days just before his death, litvinenko did something remarkable. He knew he was dying and decided to help Scotland Yard detectives sold his murder. He gave them a series of deathbed interviews. The transcripts provide a remarkably detailed account of his movements on the day he was poisoned. Litvinenko S Account starts at 10 00 a. M. When he received a Phone Call from an italian contact who had just arrived in london and insisted he needed to meet litvinenko immediately, and he said he had urgent news. They agreed to meet that afternoon. At 3 10 p. M. litvinenko were spotted on Nick Security Camera walking west on piccadilly street. They came to this Sushi Restaurant where litvinenko ate lunch. He said he was not hungry. Litvinenko and the italian parted lunch. Litvinenko was caught in another Security Camera talking on his cell phone. Litvinenko walked about a mile to the Millennium Hotel which is right across The Street from the u. S. Embassy at that modern looking building over there. Its one of the most secure neighborhoods in all of london. One of the hotel Security Cameras recorded litvinenko arriving in the lobby at 3 59 p. M. He was there to meet Andrey Lugovoy, another former Fsb Agent seen wearing a black leather jacket. Andrey lugovoy had his own Security Consulting Firm and he and litvinenko have been talking about doing business together in london. The two had met several times over the past year. This time Andrey Lugovoy brought along a buddy, a man named Dmitry Kovtun. Hes in the black turtleneck. It was a quick Meeting And Litvinenko drink half a Cup Of Tea and then left. Around 5 00 p. M. He caught a ride home. That night he pa three weeks later, he was dead. So who slipped litvinenko poison that day putting his murder into motion . Litvinenko told Scotland Yard detectives before he died, he didnt know when or who had poisoned him. He had no doubt that one or more the men he had met that day, the two russians or the italian was his killer. Naturally, we wanted to talk to all three. Coming up. We track down the first suspect, that he named. Are you frightened for your life . Life . Pete g. Writes, my tween wants a new phone. How do i not break the bank . We gotcha, pete. 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It is polonium. Polonium210 to be exact, rear and deadly radioactive isotope. The news shocked the world, even though most werent exactly sure what polonium was. Paul joyal knew what it was and what it could do. That his friend effectively burned to death from radioactivity. Its a horrible death. Its a gruesome death. He lived longer than any man normally would under those circumstances. He lived just long enough, within 12 hours long enough, for them to finally determine that it was polonium versus something else. If he had died 12 hours earlier would it have made a difference . They wouldnt have found out and wouldve marked the Death Certificate Death unknown. He wouldve been put in the ground and marked as a mystery. Turn the page. Move on. Its an almost perfect murder weapon. Polonium has no smell, little taste, and without specialized equipment its undetectable. The amount that Killed Litvinenko slipped into something he ate or drank was no larger than a grain of salt, but that still 1000 times the lethal dose. That tiny bit of Polonium Wouldve been an enormously expensive. Eight to 12 million. Who could get hold of such an expensive and exotic weapon . And how did they deliver the fatal dose . When detectives went stepby step with litvinenko through the day he was poison, he named three potential suspects. The two russians and the italian. The first one we found was the italian. In rome we are on our way to see Mario Scaramella who hopefully can shed light on who killed Alexander Litvinenko and why. Scaramella has been a hard man to pin down. He wanted to meet in naples the New York than london. He finally agreed on wrong and weird about to find out why he has been so skittish. How to describe scaramella . Lawyer, academic, security analyst, and Someone Litvinenko never completely trusted. Scaramella as a Contact Litvinenko met at the Sushi Bar on the day he was poison. Litvinenko thought you poisoned him. Yes. You didnt poison him . Absolutely not. From his Person Perspective it makes sense. Scaramella had been working for the italian government and sometimes used litvinenko as a source for investigation into the russian Mob And Spy rings. Hes been giving cute names of Russian Mafia members who were connected to the Intelligence Service. Exactly. Some something to upset the mobsters and fsb. He told us in october 2006, month before litvinenko was poison, he began receiving frightening emails. The final message arrived on the very day of his last meeting with litvinenko. What did the message say . There are people ready to kill you. The emails amounted to a Hit List. The next name . Alexander. Alexander as in Alexander Litvinenko. Scaramella said this where he met with Litvinenko In London to tell them about the Hit List, to warn him. He said that litvinenko did not buy it. He said dont care about that i think its a provocation but check whats happening. After would have been, scaramella says he takes the Hit List seriously. Are you frightened for your life . Spot do you have another question . Scotland Yard Question Scaramella and eventually cleared him. Why . Because of youre looking for it, polonium is traceable. Using specialized equipment, investigators were able to track it in people and in places. Wants polonium210 had been identified, then across europe, like the slime from the slug all the way across, polonium was popping up everywhere. But not in scaramella. No in his body for anywhere he had been. So Scotland Yard took a hard look at the two russians, lugovoy and kovtun. When detectives retraced their steps they found Polonium Contamination everywhere. We see the same fingerprints of the polonium in multiple places where they were. Business offices, hotels, a hookah bar, a strip club, a soccer stadium, and the Millennium Hotels bar where they last Met Litvinenko , thats where investigators hit the jackpot. These 3d graphics put together by Scotland Yard show the entire bar was contaminated with polonium with extreme hot spots on a table an