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Detectives don't believe lugovoi's denials. in fact, they think he tried to kill litvinenko more than once. that's 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 don't remember other things. i cannot answer these questions because these can be used against me in the court, which is done frequently. >> reporter: as for his last meeting with litvinenko at the pine bar, lugovoi says there's no way he ...

>> well -- do you have another question? >> reporter: scotland yard questioned scaramella and eventually cleared him. why? because if you're 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 he'd been. so scotland yard took a hard look at the two russians, lugovoi and kovtun. when detectives retraced th...

Expensively, more cost effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> reporter: why not just shoot him? >> i didn't say they would have done. they could possibly. we -- >> could possibly have done -- >> we -- we don't 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 russia. he did our interview in one of the restaurants that he owns. he's a member of parliament. an...

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 infamous meeting in the pine bar, where scotland yard says litvinenko was poisoned. lugovoi says the meetin...

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 litvinenko's death, scotland yard issued an arrest warrant for lugovoy. kovtun's would come later. the two responded with a press conference in moscow stating their innocence. >> reporter...