Litvinenko's body autopsy finished

The autopsy of the body of Alexander Litvinenko is over. The examination was held at the London Royal Hospital under special safety precautions, the "Sky News" reports. The data obtained after the autopsy will be analyzed by toxicologists. It is unknown so far when the final results of the autopsy will be made public.

The "Sky News" is also reporting that "an essential amount" of polonium-210, which was supposedly used to poison Mr. Litvinenko, was detected in the organism of Italian informant Mario Skaramella. The Ministry of Public Health has confirmed the information.

The Italian professor and Alexander Litvinenko met on November 1 at the London sushi-bar Itsu, where traces of this radioactive isotope were also detected. In this bar they both took their meals. According to the Ministry of Public Health, traces of polonium-210 have been found in the body of one more person, whom Litvinenko met on that very day.

The British press supposes that polonium-210 could have been brought from Krasnoyarsk, however, specialists of enterprises in Krasnoyarsk refute these data.

Besides, the words of Nikolai Zubov, one of local ecologists, are quoted. He says that everything may be taken out from enterprises whatever one wishes, and then sold in the "black market" of radioactive substances, the "Echo Moskvy" Radio reports.

The Scotland Yard believes that polonium was brought to London by an air flight from Moscow on October 25 - by a British Airways plane. Traces of the radioactive substance, which was found in Alexander Litvinenko's body, were detected on the seats and cabin baggage shelves both in the economic and business classes. The American FBI will help the Scotland Yard to investigate Litvinenko's murder.