Alexei Navalny dupes FSB agent into admitting role in poisoning
Prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he tricked a secret agent into admitting that Russian spies sought to kill him with poison. The Kremlin critic has been convalescing in Germany since August.
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Russian activist Navalny dupes FSB agent
In a story more like something out of a James Bond movie than real life, prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was allegedly able to contact and record an interview with one of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents with knowledge of the attempt on his life.
Navalny, currently convalescing in Germany, posted a video on his YouTube channel Monday titled I called my killer. He confessed. The video showed him speaking on the phone with one of the alleged operatives.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny reportedly convinced a Russian security service agent that he was an aide to a high-ranking official who had requested a report on the August attempt on Navalny s life.
The agent, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, revealed that the poison, a Novichok nerve agent, had been planted in Navalny s underwear.
Navalny fell ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. Kudryavtsev told Navalny that if the plane had not made an emergency landing or medical personnel had responded a little slower, maybe it all would have gone differently.
Opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny tricked a Russian agent who tailed him prior to an attempt on his life in August into revealing that he was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent planted in his underwear, Bellingcat reported Monday.
Russia on Tuesday announced sanctions against EU officials, in retaliation for the entry-ban imposed in October on six Russian individuals following the poisoning of 44-year-old opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
The Russian authorities said they expanded the list of representatives of EU member countries banned from entering the territory of the Russian Federation . They didn t release a list of names.
The announcement comes a day after the broadcast of a telephone conversation in which Navalny duped an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) into telling him how exactly they had allegedly tried to poison him, a phone call recording obtained by Bellingcat reveals.
Navalny Extracts Poisoning Confession From Alleged FSB Agent on Trick Call Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 A man identified as FSB agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev outlined key details of the poisoning in a 49-minute phone call with Navalny. Navalny.live Youtube
Leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny said Monday that he tricked one of the several security officers linked to his poisoning into outlining the details of the operation in a phone call.
A media investigation said last week that Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) chemical weapons experts shadowed Navalny on dozens of his trips since 2017, including on the day he was poisoned in August 2020. It identified Konstantin Kudryavtsev as one of the suspected agents from the FSB’s Criminalistics Institute, also known as its poisons factory.