MUNICH, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's prosecutors have not yet received an official statement from UK authorities on the reasons for ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko's death in November 2006, the prosecutor general said Friday.
"To date, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has not received any official documents or materials on the Litvinenko case. Neither have prosecutors seen the report from British medical experts on the official cause of Litvinenko's death," Yury Chaika said.
On Tuesday, British investigators completed their inquiry into the murder of Litvinenko, who died in London last November after being poisoned with the radioactive element polonium-210, charging businessman Andrei Lugovoi, a former FSB bodyguard, with the poisoning, and requested his extradition from Russia.
The request was rejected by Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, which said the suspect, a Russian national, could only be tried in his home country.
Chaika reiterated that Lugovoi would stand trial in Russia if his complicity was substantiated.
"If our experts find British suspicions with regard to Lugovoi credible, he will be tried in a Russian court of law," he said. "But I repeat, we will not extradite the Russian national."
Chaika said he had made this position clear to Attorney General Peter Goldsmith in Munich, but Lord Goldsmith said British prosecutors were preparing an extradition request anyway.
Lugovoi denied any involvement in Litvinenko's murder, dismissing the charges as politically motivated.
After Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said it would demand Lugovoi's extradition, Marina Litvinenko issued a statement saying she was looking forward to seeing him extradited and brought to trial in the UK
A source close to the investigation said Wednesday that a version involving Leonid Nevzlin, a core shareholder of bankrupt oil company Yukos, in the death of the former secret agent is still being investigated, along with other possibilities.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said earlier that Nevzlin, who lives in Israel and is on the international wanted list on fraud charges, could have ordered Litvinenko's assassination.
