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Chemist Vilas Mirzajanov, who was the first to publish information about Novičioko’s existence, said in an interview with Russian television Dožd on Saturday night that he wanted to apologize to A. Navalno after Germany announced that he had been poisoned by Novičioku .
Navaln spoke Saturday about his symptoms after feeling ill on the plane on Aug. 20, including the inability to formulate words, and said he still has a hard time pouring a glass of water or using a phone.
“I sincerely apologize to Navalno for being involved in this criminal case, creating the material with which he was poisoned,” said Mirzayanov, who now lives in the United States and wrote his first articles on Noviciok in the early 1990s.
VIDEO: Video released from A.Navalnas hotel room after poisoning – “Novičiok” detected in a bottle of water
He predicted that Navaln would eventually recover, about a year later, and said he probably drank the poison because the poison didn’t seem to affect other people.
Another scientist who participated in the Novičiokas program, Vladimir Uglev, said that the fact that A. Navalnas survived shows that the poison only came into contact with his skin.
Navaln assistants collected all the discarded items from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk and sent them to German experts, who found Novičioko in a bottle of water.
Meanwhile, Russian scientist Leonid Rink, who according to state media also participated in the Novicok program, criticized Mirzayanov’s comments on Sunday.
Rink told RIA Novosti that Mirzajanov, while working at the same research center, was a “simple” chemist who was not directly involved in the creation of Novičioka and could not know its “biological effects”.
L. Rinkas said that if “Novičiokas” had been used against A. Navalnas, the opposition politician would have died.
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