Chapter XXVII: German police search for polonium 210 in Hamburg flat

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30021121

BERLIN - German police said Saturday they had drawn a blank with a first search of a flat in Hamburg used by Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, for traces of the radioactive substance polonium 210.

"Hamburg police are taking every measure to check if polonium 210 is present in the apartment," they said in a statement.

A police spokesman said early Saturday the initial examination of the flat had come up with "no convincing result," but more in-depth tests would be needed.

Investigators believe Kovtun, a 41-year-old businessman, could have been in contact with the highly radioactive substance which killed Litvinenko on November 23.

Kovtun, one of three Russians who met Litvinenko in London on November 1, shortly before the former intelligence agent fell ill, was reported Friday to be suffering from radiation sickness.

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I made up the chapter number. This is reading like a spy novel more and more, only the death and suffering are real. Every day is a new twist and turn.

I wonder if Putin is going to make himself the next Czar.....

Just posting this here so I don't lose track of it.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1864950,00.html

Berezovsky and Bush's brother in the crowd at the Emirates

aul Kelso
Tuesday September 5, 2006
The Guardian

The exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has made his first public appearance since being linked with the takeover of West Ham. Berezovsky was at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday in the company of Neil Bush the brother of the US president, George Bush.

Berezovsky has invested in an online educational company founded by the president's younger brother and invited Bush to join him in his box at Arsenal to watch the Brazil-Argentina friendly. Also present were Alberto Dualib and Nesi Curi, president and vice-president of Corinthians, the Brazilian club that sold the Argentinian internationals Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascherano to West Ham United in the surprise deal of transfer deadline day.