It seems my theory that Litvinenko hooked up twice with Lugovoi and Kovtun is now supported by two witnesses’ testimony. I have suspected Litvinenko had an earlier business meeting with Lugovoi and Kovtun, and Litvinenko went up to Lugovoi’s (or someone’s) room to pick them up to head out (not uncommon). It was in this room where the poisoning took place. Then the trio went someplace else possibly, and prted company for a while until they tagged up again later in the evening at the Pine Bar just prior to the game between Arsenal and CSK Moscow.

In between these two contacts at the Hotel, then, would be a visit by one or all to a security firm and Berezovsky’s office, and Litvinenko’s meeting with Scaramella. Scaramella testified Litvinenko had a prior business meeting and that is why he could not meet until 3:00 PM. They went their separate ways by 3:45 PM, and by 5:00 PM we find Litvinenko at the Hotel Bar, according to a third Russian who seems to have been legitimately on Holiday and ready to watch the big game that evening (link here, with possible formatting issues)

Sokolenko told Kommersant that he arrived in London on October 31 with Lugovoi and Lugovoi’s wife and three children. Kovtun arrived the next day from Hamburg. “On November 1, Andrey Lugovoi’s wife and children and I left the Millennium Hotel at about 10:00 for an excursion through London and returned around 5:00. We met Andrey [Lugovoi] and Dmitry [Kovtun] in the lobby on the first floor, and I don’t remember who was with them then.” He said that he had a room on the third floor of the hotel, and the Lugovois lived in Room 441. That room has been sealed by the British police.

Sokolenko seems to be a true innocent bystander and his and Scaramella’s independent testimonies confirm this scenario.