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Pismennyi, Freishut, Chernov, Adamove, etc:

Much longer April 29, 2006, article includes more info on Pismennyi, Freishut, Chernov, Adamove, etc:
http://www.wmdinsights.com/I6/I6_R1_FormerRussianMinister.htm
Other defendants in the same case include:
...Vyacheslav Pismennyi, the former director of the State Research Center, Troitsky Institute of Innovation and Thermonuclear Research,
and
Revmir Freishut, the former Director General of TechSnabExport, a state-owned nuclear fuel exporting company.
An international arrest warrant has been issued for a fourth defendant :
Aleksandr Chernov, the president of Nuclear Services and Supply Ltd, a Swiss company operating in the United States, which was created by TechSnabExport in 1991 to market Russian products....

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Scaramella tests positive for polonium
...significant quantity of the radioactive isotope polonium 210 in body...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/01/upoison101.xml
Developments in the fast-moving tale include, but not limited to, the revelations that:
...believe the polonium was brought into London on a British Airways flight from Moscow on Oct 25...

Assassins so bungling that they dropped the polonium on the floor of a London hotel room:
..."Friends of Mr Litvinenko say that he did not visit the rooms in either of the hotels"...
But:
..."traces of the radiation were found on the floor of a room, thought to be in the Millennium hotel in central London, as well as on a light switch in the same room. The traces were so strong that they indicated the actual source of the radiation was present, not a secondary source such as excretions from Mr Litvinenko’s contaminated body."...

UK Litvinenko Case: Trepashkin's Letters Reveal Hit Squad
..."detectives are investigating letters smuggled out of Russia which purport to show the existence of a secret squad set up to target Mr Litvinenko and others."...