05 December 2006, 23:02

Litvinenko's body was given out to his relatives

The body of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, has been handed over to his relatives for burial. According to informed sources, the British experts who made the pathologicoanatomic examination of the body recommended to perform the burial as soon as possible.

According to the British authorities, the outcomes of the pathologicoanatomic study of Litvinenko's body that was conducted last week will be made public in the nearest days, the ITAR-TASS reports.

Mr. Litvinenko who fled to Great Britain in 2000 and received his British passport in October this year died in the evening on November 23 at the hospital of London University College, supposedly, from poisoning with radioactive polonium-210.

The "Caucasian Knot" has already reported that on November 1 Alexander Litvinenko had a meeting with his informant Mario Scaramella. Litvinenko told later that Scaramella handed over some documents to him, which contained information about the killers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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