Italian in poison spy case leaves London hospital
Source: Reuters
LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - An Italian contact of poisoned Russian Alexander Litvinenko was on Wednesday discharged from a London hospital which had been monitoring him for radiation poisoning, a medical spokesman said. Mario Scaramella had been admitted to hospital last Friday after polonium 210, the same poison that killed former Russian agent Litvinenko, was detected in his body. But doctors had said Scaramella had received a much lower dose than Litvinenko and was not showing any symptoms of radiation poisoning. "Around noon today, he was discharged," said a spokesman for University College Hospital, declining to give further details. The Litvinenko case has strained relations between Britain and Russia, which denies his deathbed accusations that the Kremlin ordered him killed. Scaramella emerged as a central figure in the case because he met Litvinenko in a London sushi bar on Nov. 1, the day the Russian fell ill. Scaramella and his lawyers could not immediately be reached for comment on his release from hospital.
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