New evidence on the death of Alexei Navalny? According to leaked documents, Novichok killed him

New evidence has emerged that the most charismatic political enemy Vladimir Putin he was “poisoned to death” in the arctic penal colony Polar Wolf. Alexei Navalny died in February this year, and new evidence suggests he was likely killed by poison. A Russian hit man is suspected used the substance Novichok, with which they already tried to kill Navalny once.

The independent Russian media The Insider revealed evidence in the form of documents, where it is written that si Navalny complained to prison guards that he felt a “sharp pain in his stomach”. Russia has officially claimed that the case “does not have a criminal nature” and that Putin’s opponent died of “natural causes”.

However, The Insider reports that the documents say that the leader of the Russian opposition “felt a sharp deterioration in his health while walking in the prison yard” on 16 February. A day earlier, a video showed him looking and sounding healthy despite his incarceration – as he mocked the judge in charge of his latest mock trial.

The doctor is convinced of poisoning

After reporting acute abdominal pain, Navalny was taken from the prison yard, according to leaked documents. “Navalny lay down on the floor and began to complain of a sharp pain in the abdominal area. He began vomiting, convulsing and lost consciousness, which was immediately reported to correctional medical staff,” is in the news.

Later versions of the report removed “all mention of abdominal pain, vomiting and convulsions”, which suggests censorship. Navalny’s wife had previously insisted that “in the last minutes before his death, Alexei complained of acute pain in his stomach.” New leaked documents suggest she was right.

The documents were commented on by ICU doctor Alexandr Polupan, who treated Navalny after poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok in Omsk in August 2020. He stated that the symptoms indicated organophosphate poisoning.

Commenting on the latest revelations, the doctor said: “The official cause of death – a heart rhythm disorder – would in no way explain the symptoms… sharp abdominal pain, vomiting or seizures. These symptoms can hardly be explained by anything other than poisoning. A short interval between abdominal pain and convulsions suggests the possibility of exposure to, for example, an organophosphorus substance – the same class of substances as Novichok, but in this case it could have been administered internally.”

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