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In December, the investigative journalism website, citing leaked phone calls and travel data, reported that the FST team, which specializes in poisonings, had been tracking Navalna since January 2017.
A new study, conducted in collaboration with The Insider and Der Spiegel, confirmed Thursday that the same agents systematically followed Karz-Murz until he suddenly fell ill in May 2015 and then February 2017, according to travel log data.
The FST press service did not respond to requests for comment by phone.
At the time of his illness, Karza-Murza was the main coordinator of the Open Russia movement founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and an ally of the murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
In Moscow in 2015, he was diagnosed with kidney failure, slipped into a coma and then, after flying to the United States, made a very slow recovery. Two years later, he suffered another organ failure in Moscow after a second acute poisoning.
The attack on A. Navalna was carried out last August. He was poisoned by one of the nerve paralyzing substances that Novičiok developed in the Soviet Union during his visit to Siberia. He and Western governments have accused Putin and the FST of the attack. The Kremlin denies any involvement in the incident.
After recovering from treatment in Germany, Navaln, who introduced himself as an advisor to the secretary of the Russian National Security Council, obtained information about a planned conspiracy over the phone during an interview with one of the FSB agents suspected of organizing his poisoning.
In a report published in December, the FST called the record “false” and said that Bellingcat’s investigation against the poisoning team “would not have been possible without the organizational and technical support of foreign special services.” The Kremlin has also rejected earlier reports from Bellingcat.
Police arrested Navalna at one of Moscow’s airports in January, less than an hour after the opposition returned to Moscow from Germany.
A Moscow court sentenced him to two years and eight months in prison in February for allegedly violating the terms of a trial trial in a 2014 fraud investigation while abroad when he was released from a Berlin hospital in September.
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