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The team of Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny announced on Friday that a relative of his was picked up in the morning from his home in Moscow and taken to the Investigation Committee, the Russian body in charge of the main criminal investigations, reports Agerpres, citing AFP and Reuters .
Lawyer Liubov Sobol, who on Monday visited the alleged FSB agent whom Navalny accuses of being involved in his poisoning in August, is under investigation for “home invasion” and “threats,” Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Fund, said on Twitter. . anti-corruption organization, Navalny organization.
The opponent’s arrest comes after Navalny released on Monday a recording of a telephone conversation with suspected FSB agent Konstantin Kudriavtsev in which the latter, believing he was speaking to an intelligence officer, says that Russian special services poisoned to the dissident. Authorities described the conversation as false, but did not deny that Navalny’s interlocutor was an agent.
Navalny, who was injured on August 20 on a plane flying between Tomsk and Moscow, was later transferred to a hospital in Germany where it was confirmed that he was poisoned with Noviciok, who claims he was poisoned on the orders of the Kremlin. The Russian authorities have repeatedly denied any involvement.
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