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- A few days after Alexei Navalny made a phone call to one of his suspected killers, an employee of the Russian government critic is under investigation.
- Lawyer Lyubov Sobol had been detained for 48 hours, Nawalny’s team said Saturday night on Twitter.
According to the Russian investigation committee, criminal proceedings for illegal entry have been initiated against the opposition. On Friday, security forces searched the 33-year-old’s apartment.
The defendants face prison
Shortly after the call was published, Sobol filmed the police presence at the home of the alleged employee of the Russian national secret service FSB. She was later arrested and fined for opposing the orders of a police officer, according to the official report.
Sobol is now accused of having violated the “inviolability of the house through the use of force or threats” because she rang the agent’s doorbell, said the head of the Navalny Fund to Combat Corruption, Ivan Zhdanov.
In the worst case, you face a prison sentence for trespassing. Now she is considered a suspect in the process. “Your status has changed.”
Navalny criticizes the police
Navalny harshly criticized the actions of the police. “This is not a state, it is a criminal group,” he said. “It is just a blatantly fabricated criminal process.” All equipment in Sobol’s apartment was seized by security forces, including the seven-year-old daughter’s cell phone, Navalny wrote.
The girl and the husband should have left the apartment. The Kremlin wants to break with Navalny, Echo Moskwy radio station commented on the new developments.
Navalny, 44, is staying in Germany for rehabilitation after being badly poisoned. He blames an FSB “assassin squad” operating under the orders of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin for the poison attack with a Novichok group chemical warfare agent.
A few days ago Navalny had published a recording of a telephone conversation with an alleged agent. In it, the man says that the poison was placed in Navalny’s underwear.
