MOSCOW (AP) – A top aide to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained Friday after he allegedly opened the door to a security guard who inadvertently leaked details of Navalny’s alleged poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent.
Lubov Sobol, a key figure in Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained for 48 hours a day after being questioned on charges of violent malpractice. The move follows an attempt by Sovol on Monday to enter the alleged operative’s Moscow apartment apartment, which Navalny had previously caught detailing the alleged poisoning.
Soble has denied the allegations and insisted he did not violate the law by ringing the doorbell in the party. While Sobol was being questioned, the state’s investigative committee issued a statement accusing him of making the allegations – a charge his colleagues denied.
Earlier this week, Navalny released a recording of a phone call in which he said he had identified a man identified as Konstantin Kudryavtsev and described him as an alleged member of a group of Federal Security Service officers or FSB who deliberately poisoned him. Was. Soviet-era novice agent in Soviet Gust and then tried to cover it up.
Navalny, who is undergoing transformation in Germany, said he called hours before the investigation group Bellingcat released a report in which FSB workers with special training in chemical weapons had been following him for years and poisoned him when he was nearby.
In the call, Navalni identified herself as a security officer and shared the details of the alleged poisoning operation with her interlocutor and admitted that she was involved in the “processing” of Navalni’s underwear, so there would be no traces of poisoning.
Naval fell ill during a flight to Russia on 20 Aug Gust and was brought to Berlin two days later while still in a coma for treatment. Tests carried out by labs and organizations for the prohibition of chemical weapons in Germany, France and Sweden established that it was against the Soviet-era Novichok Nerve Agent.
Russian officials have strongly denied any involvement in the poisoning, and the FSB has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning Russia’s intelligence have been made more than once.
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