Bellingcat Chief Investigator Grozev Releases Travel Data From Possible Navalny Poisoners



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Bellingcat journalist Hristo Grozev published details on 10 suspected FSB officers who were likely to pursue Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and their travel routes. Journalist Yevgeny Feldman, who filmed Navalny on trips, said he had already found matches of these routes with Navalny’s movements in 2017.

The chief investigator of the international group Bellingcat, Hristo Grozev, released information about the travels of the alleged participants in the assassination attempt of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

There are 10 people in the database. Eight of those named by Grozev appeared in Bellingcat and The Insider’s initial investigation into the Navalny poisoning, and two more are from the FSB’s forensic science institute.

The file contains information on the dates, destinations and vehicles in which the possible participants in the assassination traveled.

Grozev draws attention to the “strange trend”: buying several tickets to the same destination and, in some cases, canceling the reservation. According to the researcher, the norm is an “operating procedure” that allows scouts to act “in a more flexible way” and also to divert possible surveillance “by making adjustments to the schedule at the last minute”.

Following the publication of the database, journalist Yevgeny Feldman, who filmed Navalny on trips, on his Twitter wrotethat he found “unexpectedly” at least 10 trips by FSB officers to the cities where Navalny was campaigning in 2017. They were on the same dates when the politician went there.



The plane in which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow landed urgently in Omsk due to the deteriorating state of the politician on August 20. The opponent was unconscious in the toxic resuscitation department of the emergency hospital number 1 in Omsk.

August 22nd Navalny was delivered by plane. to the Berlin clinic “Charite”.

The German government reported on September 2 that Navalny’s corps found traces of the substance, similar in composition to “Newbie”. The biological material extracted from the politician was examined by a special laboratory of the German armed forces. The fact of the poisoning of Navalny with poison from the Novichok group was also confirmed laboratories in France and Sweden.

Navalny was in a coma for 18 days… Doctors “Charite” reported on September 7 to get him out of a medical coma and disconnecting from the fan. September 22 Navalny discharged from the clinic, he in rehabilitation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the statements about the poisoning of Navalny not supported by facts… The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, claimed that at the time of departure to Germany, traces of the poison there was no politician in the body.

As Le Monde wrote, Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 14, during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, suggested that Navalny “for an unknown reason” I could take poison myself of the group “Newbie”.

October 15th The European Union imposed sanctions against six Russian officials for the poisoning of Navalny. United Kingdom joins the sanctions… The United States House of Representatives called the White House also impose sanctions.

An investigation by The Insider, Bellingcat, CNN and Der Spiegel was released on December 14, in which it was reported that Navalny was poisoned in Tomsk. a group of FSB officers… According to the researchers, this was the second poisoning attempt in two months: the first, in July 2020, opponent Julia’s wife suffered… Navalny and his wife participated in the investigation. The politician released a video in which he said that knows the names of the poisoners… The opponent stressed that he considers the assassination attempt a terrorist act organized by the FSB on Putin’s orders.

December 21 Navalny released a videohow he called a probable FSB officer, member of the group of poisoners, Konstantin Kudryavtsev. The politician introduced himself as the undersecretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, and “asked to clarify the points necessary to inform the authorities.” Navalny’s interlocutor confirmed the fact of the operation and said that he survived only by coincidence, and also said that the poisonous substance inflicted on her underwear… At the FSB fake call Navalny’s conversation with a probable poisoner.



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