Mario Scaramella

Mario Scaramella

Mario Scaramella (born April 23, 1970 in Naples ) is an Italian intelligence expert. He was one of the experts in a committee of inquiry of the Italian parliament into the recruitment of Italian spies by the former Russian secret service KGB . Scaramella is connected to the affair of the Russian ex- FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko , who died on November 23, 2006 from a high dose of polonium .

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Scaramella is said to have been Litvinenko's contact in Italy. He was one of the last people who is said to have seen Alexander Litvinenko before his health problems occurred. Litvinenko claims to have investigated the murder of journalist Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya . Scaramella had given him information on this, in which Litvinenko and the London-based oligarch Boris Berezovsky were said to have been named as possible next targets.

The radioactive substance was first discovered on December 1, 2006 in the urine of the Italian with whom Litvinenko met on November 1, 2006 in a London sushi bar. Scaramella is apparently much more contaminated with polonium 210 than Litvinenko's wife.

Litvinenko reportedly suspected that Scaramella might have administered the fatal radiation charge to him on his death bed. The Italian Scaramella was “nervous” and “didn't even touch the food”. The Italian only drank a glass of water.

"Despite a great fear, I currently feel good, I have no symptoms," wrote Scaramella in a letter to his lawyer, which he forwarded to the Italian news agency ANSA on December 2, 2006 . The London University Hospital, where Scaramella is being treated, contradicted newspaper reports that Scaramella's life was in danger. Scaramella is fine; Preliminary tests had produced no evidence of radioactive poisoning, said a clinic spokesman.

On December 24th, Scaramella was arrested by Italian police officers. The Italian authorities accuse Scaramella of, among other things, possible betrayal of secrets and arms smuggling. There is also talk of defamation. The connection with the Litvinenko case is still unclear. Scaramella, the self-proclaimed security expert, is described in the Italian media as a shadow man between crime and secret services. He made a name for himself in the past when he claimed that the Soviet fleet's K-8 nuclear submarine, which sank in 1970, left 20 nuclear warheads in the Bay of Naples . Scaramella also accused Litvinenko of smuggling nuclear material out of Russia while at the FSB. The Italian could not prove his theses.

Web links

• Litvinenko contact Scaramella is apparently doing well . In: GMX , December 3, 2006
• The FBI is also investigating the Litvinenko murder . In: mopo.de, December 3, 2006
• Ex-spy's informant fears Russians and Chechens - RP Online , November 20, 2006
• Man of twilight . In: Süddeutsche , December 1, 2006
• Poison plotters claim their second victim . In: The Times 02/12/06
• Sushi bar man is nuclear waste expert
• FSB Denies Attempting To Kill Russian Defector in London - Kavkaz Center , 13 November 2006
• Statute of the Environmental Crime Prevention Program - by Mario Scaramella
• The second poison victim . In: Spiegel-Online, December 2, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Soviet Navy left 20 nuclear warheads in bay of Naples . In: The Independent , March 19, 2005 ( online ( memento of the original dated December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )