Russian police launch preliminary examination into Alexei Navalny’s illness

Russian police on August 27 reportedly anunced that y h begun a preliminary examination of Russian President Vlimir Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny’s illness. According to reports, transport police in Siberia said that y have started a ‘pre-investigation check’ into what led to opposition leer’s hospitalisation in city of Omsk. investigation comes after Kremlin dismissed German doctor’s findings that Navalny was apparently poisoned. 

As per reports, ‘pre-investigation check’ will help to establish ‘all circumstances’ and decide wher to open a criminal probe. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reportedly rejected international calls for a transparent investigation into incident. Peskov said that decision was down to law enforcement authorities but that it was t possible to save Navalny was poisoned since toxic substance h been identified. 

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44-year-old anti-corruption campaigner fell ill on a plane to Moscow from Siberian city of Tomsk. plane me an emergency landing and Navalny spent two days in a clinic at Omsk in a coma before being transferred to Berlin’s Charite Hospital. While Navalny’s allies suspect a possible poisoning, Russian doctors h said that ir tests did t find any traces of poison while y treated Putin’s critic with same antidote that German medics are using. 

Police search for evidence 

preliminary checks to determine wher a crime has been committed comes a week after incident. As per reports, it also comes after police and plain-clod security service nts questioned doctors at hospital without making any public statements. 

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transport police reportedly said that y searched locations that Navalny visited and his hotel. y have even examined security camera foot and confiscated ‘more than 100 items that could have value as evidence’. police furr ded that y did t find any ‘strong acting or narcotic substances’. 

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is "frustrated" with Russian President Vlimir Putin, limit of which peaked after recent suspected poison attack Navalny, who is currently being treated in Berlin. Merkel have reportedly said that she is irritated as Putin has shone flexibility in handling issue. reason behind Merkel's exasperation is t just latest case of Navalny, but also 2019 assassination in Berlin park of Chechen exile and 2015 cyberattack on lower house of German parliament, both of which are said to be anchored by Russia.

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