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From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 25, 2006 4:14:22 PM PST
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] Italian Linked to Litvinenko Held in Arms
Dealing Probe
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http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=19915
Italian Linked to Litvinenko Held in Arms Dealing Probe
By Phil Stewart
Reuters
ROME — Mario Scaramella, the Italian contact of the dead ex-Russian
spy Alexander Litvinenko, flew home for Christmas on Sunday but was
arrested in connection with an investigation into arms trafficking, a
judicial source said.
The source said Scaramella was arrested at Naples airport as he
arrived on a flight from London, where he was hospitalized this month
for treatment for suspected radiation poisoning.
He was one of the last people to have met with Litvinenko, who died
last month of radiation poisoning.
Scaramella, an Italian KGB expert who was a consultant to a
parliamentary commission that investigated spying in Europe during the
Cold War, was arrested in connection with an investigation into arms
trafficking and violating state secrets.
Scaramella, whose family lives in the Naples area, was later driven to
the Regina Coeli jail in central Rome.
Scaramella met Litvinenko at a London sushi bar on Nov. 1, the day the
former Russian spy fell ill.
Both Russian and British authorities have started murder
investigations into Litvinenko's death from poisoning by a lethal dose
of polonium-210.
The attention surrounding Scaramella has thrown the spotlight onto
Italian judicial investigations that involve him, including one into
arms trafficking.
In a telephone interview with Reuters earlier this month, Scaramella
said: "I need to come back to Italy as soon as I can and to clarify
with authorities," he said.
Litvinenko, in a statement released after his death on Nov. 23,
accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of masterminding his
poisoning.
The Kremlin has denied involvement in the case, which has sparked
conspiracy theories, revived memories of Cold War spying and strained
relations between Russia and Britain.
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