Litvinenko Murder File Handed To British Prosecutors

British detectives investigating the death of former Russian security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko sent a file of information from their probe to prosecutors today.

Police did not say whether the file makes recommendations that individuals should be charged with criminal offenses over Litvinenko's death.

Litvinenko, a Kremlin critic who lived in exile in London, died in a London hospital in November after receiving a lethal dose of radioactive polonium-210.

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