Alexei Navalny|Russia has claimed that Navalny died of cardiac arrhythmia.
Russian investigative journalism site The Insider claim opposition politician who died in prison in February at the age of 47 after finding evidence To Alexei Navalny deadly.
According to Russia’s official account, Navalny died of “natural causes” of cardiac arrhythmia, and the incident was not criminal. However, based on the documents obtained by The Insider, there is reason to doubt this, the paper claims.
The newspaper obtained two versions of the same Russian Investigative Committee document. In the first version, Navalny’s symptoms before his death are described, among other things, as follows:
“— Navalnyi felt his health deteriorate rapidly while he was outside at the sports venue—which he reported to the emergency worker who took Navalny away from the sports venue.”
“There, Navalnyi was lying on the ground and began to complain of a stabbing pain in the stomach area; he began reflexively [oksentaa] the contents of his stomach, he had convulsions and lost consciousness, which was immediately reported to the medical staff of the facility.”
The document however, in the later version, all descriptions of the symptoms have been removed, the Russian newspaper writes. Helsingin Sanomat has not been able to confirm the authenticity of the documents.
The newspaper has also obtained a list of the “objects” seized in the investigation of the place where Navalny died. “Samples of vomit” are marked on the list, which, according to the document, have been taken for examination. The samples have not been made public.
According to medical experts interviewed by The Insider, the findings show that Navalny’s official manner of death and his symptoms do not match, and that poisoning is a more likely cause of death than cardiac arrhythmia.
In August, Navalny’s widow Yuliya Navalnaya had said on social media that her husband had had “acute stomach pain” before his death.
There was an attempt to poison Navalny with Novichok nerve agent in 2020 while he was on a flight to Moscow. At that time, the plane made an emergency landing at the nearest airport in Omsk, where he was given the antidote atropine.
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