Kremlin critic Navalny demands Russia to return his clothes for investigation

Russian opposition leer Alexei Navalny has asked Kremlin to hand over clos he was wearing when he fell unconscious on a flight after alleged poisoning. anti-corruption campaigner has accused Kremlin of using “pre-investigation probe” to hide important piece of evidence in poisoning case, demanding Russia to return clos after packing it carefully in a plastic bag.

German health authorities h confirmed poisoning of Navalny with a nerve nt from vichok group, citing toxicological test results. Later, specialist laboratories in France and Sweden also confirmed poisoning with Soviet-style nerve nt vichok. Germany informed that Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is still investigating cause independently.

“Before y allowed for me to be taken to Germany, y took off all my clos and sent me completely naked,” Navalny wrote on his website.

“Considering vichok was found on my body, and that infection through contact is very likely, my clos are a very important piece of evidence,” he ded.

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Russia's reluctance

Navalny’s clos are longer in hospital in Siberia’s Omsk, where he was initially mitted, as investigators took it with m, RIA news ncy quoted local health ministry as saying. Russia has denied starting a formal criminal investigation into alleged poisoning, saying y need more evidence and medical data from German health authorities. 

Navalny's team said that politician was poisoned at his hotel room in Siberian city of Tomsk and t at airport as suspected earlier. team informed that y collected everything y could from hotel room on day he fell sick and sent it to Germany for investigation. German laboratory found traces of vichok nt on bottles collected from Navalny's room.  

Meanwhile, 44-year-old opposition figure is currently recovering in Berlin’s Charité hospital and recently shared a photograph of him walking down stairs. In Instagram update, Navalny wrote about his recovery status, saying it is alrey “a clear path albeit a long one.” He thanked doctors of Charité hospital for turned him from a “technically alive person” into someone who can “quickly scroll through Instagram and understands without hesitation where to put likes.”

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