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Alexei Navalny with his family. The image is from Navalny’s Instagram from earlier this week.
One of the researchers involved in the development of the neurotoxin novitjok in the 1990s apologizes to opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is currently being treated at a hospital in Germany for suspected novitiate poisoning.
Former investigator Vil Mirzajanov publicly apologized in an interview on Russian channel TV Rain.
– I want to give my deepest apologies to Navalny for participating in criminal activity to develop the substance that was later used to poison him, he says in the interview.
In the interview, he also says that Navalny was most likely poisoned by oral ingestion, as he does not appear to have spread the poison to others.
Mirzajanov, som nu bor In the United States, he was one of several chemists who worked during the top-secret Soviet program in which the novitjok poison was produced. He is the third investigator on the program to comment on what happened to Navalny.
The leader of the Russian opposition fell ill during a flight between Siberian Tomsk and Moscow on August 20. He was then taken to Germany, where sampling, according to the country’s government, showed that he had been poisoned with the neurotoxin novitjok. Laboratory analyzes in Sweden and France have led to the same conclusion.
Russia questions that the opposition politician has been poisoned.
