Navalny claims that he discovered the details of his poisoning through a chemist at the FSB Institute of Forensic Sciences.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims he managed to find out the details of his poisoning from the alleged organizer, a military chemist at the FSB Institute of Forensic Sciences, whom he called under the guise of Nikolai Patrushev, undersecretary of the Russian Security Council. This operation, in which he also participatedand reporters from Bellingcat and The Insider, Navalny described on its website.

Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev, a military chemist at the FSB Institute of Forensic Sciences … He spoke to me for 45 minutes, assuming I was the Under Secretary of the Security Council and former Director of the FSB Patrushev. At the beginning of the conversation, we only knew three things about Kudryavtsev. in a group of secret assassins, who is a chemist and who flew to Omsk on August 25. Therefore, I assumed that I had taken my hospital clothes off. And at the end of the conversation, Konstantin kindly explained a lot of details to us, “Navalny said.

According to him, the alleged Kudryavtsev spoke about the details of the operation and suggested that the reasons for its failure were the early landing of the plane in Omsk and the help of the ambulance doctors. In addition, he indicated that he considered the operation well planned.

Navalny’s interlocutor also confirmed that after the poisoning, the opponent’s personal effects were treated with solutions so that no traces were left.

I can imagine how it was. Security Council. Seated: Putin, Patrushev, Bortnikov, Matvienko.
Bortnikov: We need a warrant to work on Navalny’s underpants.
Vladimir Putin: I give the order to work with your panties. These cowards are our number one security threat.

– Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 21, 2020

The call to the opponent was aided by Bellingcat reporters, who had phone numbers and a list of numbers his killers called. As it turned out, they were using a special number, something like a switchboard.

“We took the simplest program, used by phone pranksters to hide the number I’m calling, and substituted the number we need,” Navalny explained.

The Insider provides a full transcript of the recordings of Navalny’s phone conversations with the alleged Kudryavtsev.

As reported German wave, with reference to researchis Bellingcat and The Insider, foundedis In analyzing the billing data of mobile phones and air passenger databases, Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a group of FSB officers who had accompanied him on trips through Russia since 2017. The journalists named the names and pseudonyms of the operatives who, according to his information, participated in the Navalny assassination attempt. These are Stanislav Makshakov, Oleg Tayakin (“Tarasov”), Alexey Alexandrov (“Frolov”), Ivan Osipov (“Spiridonov”), Konstantin Kudryavtsev (“Sokolov”), Alexey Krivoshchekov, Mikhail Shvets (“Stepanov”) and Vladimir Pannaev .