The newspaper reported that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has completed the process of compiling the extradition request for two suspects and was ready to file it.
"The CPS has been asked to prepare extradition requests and we understand they are ready to go. This is Litvinenko all over again. It’s almost a rerun of the situation. The police have managed to identify the people coming over and going back again," the governmental source told the paper.
The CPS declined to comment on the alleged extradition request.
"We do not have any comment on this article," a CPS spokesperson told Sputnik.
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