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On December 29, Russian authorities said they had opened an investigation into Alexei Navalny, the Russian government opponent who was poisoned last August with a nerve agent, accused of fraud for spending public donations made to the government for personal purposes. its Foundation.
The Investigation Committee, which is the main Russian investigative agency, accuses Navalny of making personal purchases with more than 356 million rubles (about 3.9 million euros) that had been donated to some organizations, including the Anti-Corruption Foundation. a non-profit organization founded in 2011 by Navalny with the aim of investigating the corruption of senior Russian government officials and making it public.
The foundation was dissolved last July after a company owned by Evgeny Prigozhin, a businessman believed to be close to the Kremlin, filed a lawsuit for 88 million rubles (just under 1 million euros) against Navalny himself. .
Navalny, who is still recovering in Germany after recovering from the poisoning that kept him in intensive care for 24 days, has claimed on multiple occasions that Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind the attempt to kill him since he regained health. and responded to the allegations of the investigation in a tweet saying: «I said it right away: they are going to try to put me in prison because I am not dead and because I am looking for whoever tried to kill me. Because I have shown that Putin is personally behind all this. He is a thief, ready to kill those who refuse to silence his theft ».
Prior to these allegations, Navalny, who has been arrested multiple times over the past decade and faced multiple charges, received a 3.5-year suspended sentence in Russia in 2014 for embezzlement of public money. On Monday, December 28, the day before the new indictment was announced, the agency that deals with the prison system in Russia had ordered him to come the next day for a check, saying that if he did not show up, an incarceration order.
Navalny, who has repeatedly said that he wants to return to Russia once he has fully recovered, replied that he was unable to meet this deadline due to his health condition. The prison agency, inviting him to come forward, had attached an article published in the magazine as proof that he had recovered. The lancet written by the doctors of the Charité hospital in Berlin. Navalny responded that citing that article means officially acknowledging his poisoning and asked for an explanation of why, therefore, no criminal case about the poisoning was opened.
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In mid-December, Navalny, using a false identity, received a confession by telephone from an agent of the FSB, the Russian security services, that he admitted the responsibility of the FSB in his assassination attempt. On August 20 of this year, Navalny collapsed while traveling on a plane leaving the city of Tomsk, Siberia, and headed for Moscow. The plane landed in the nearest city, Omsk, where Navalny was admitted to intensive care. Doctors at the hospital initially said they found no signs of intoxication. After a couple of tense days, the Russian authorities allowed Navalny to be transferred to the Charité hospital in Berlin. There, doctors discovered that Navalny had been poisoned with a nerve agent.
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