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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he misled a Russian secret service agent and learned the details of a failed plot to assassinate him.
In early December, a joint investigation by The Insider, Bellingcat, and CNN, involving German Der Spiegel, identified the names and titles of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents who attempted to poison Navalny with Novice. .
In a video Monday, Navalny said that before the joint investigation was announced, he had called in some of his suspected poisoners and introduced himself as an assistant to the secretary of Russia’s National Security Council.
One of these people, whom Navalny calls an FSS official, spoke with him for 49 minutes by phone and appeared to be part of the team to erase the traces, the opposition said. Navalny posted a recording and text of the conversation. The agent claims that the poison was placed in the underwear of a Kremlin critic.
Reuters said it could not confirm from an independent source the circumstances surrounding the phone call or the identity of Navalny’s interlocutor.
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any accusations that Russia tried to assassinate Navalny. So far, the FSS has not commented on the opposition’s accusations.
In the recording, Navalny is heard asking his interlocutor on the other end of the phone line: “Why didn’t anything happen?”
“I have asked myself this question more than once” corresponds to a voice at the other end of the line. When asked why Navalny survived, the voice replied that it was highly likely because the plane had made an unplanned emergency landing and had received prompt and professional treatment from Russian doctors. “If it had lasted a little longer, everything could have ended differently”, says the voice.
A little later, the Russian Federal Security Service called the recording “falsification” and “provocation”.
“The video showing this phone call is a forgery. The alleged investigation released by Navalny is a planned provocation that would not have been possible without the technical and organizational support of foreign special services.” it said in a statement from the Federal Service, cited by Russian agencies.
In August, Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critics, was airlifted for treatment in Germany after fainting on a plane in Russia. Berlin said he was poisoned with the Soviet war poison Novichok in an attempt to kill him, a claim many Western countries accept.
Putin rejected media reports about the Navalny poisoning. He said they were fabricated from information provided by US intelligence and were an attempt to denigrate the Russian president himself and present Navalny as more important than he really was.
Navalny is recovering in Germany, but said he intends to return to Russia at an undisclosed date.
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