Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says Russia sent him to Germany completely naked before he demands that his clothes be returned to him so they may be used as evidence of his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has told Russia to hand over the clothes he was wearing when he fell into a coma last month and accused Moscow of withholding an important piece of evidence in his case.The hospital he was treated at in Russia say they no longer have his clothesThe outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin on Monday said his clothes were taken away from him before he was flown to Germany from Siberia for treatment after he became violently ill on a domestic flight.
Moscow has said it is yet to see evidence of a crime and has declined to open an investigation so far, instead opening a pre-investigation probe."Before they allowed for me to be taken to Germany, they took off all my clothes and sent me completely naked," Mr Navalny wrote on his website, as he recovers in a German hospital.
Mr Navalny's clothes were taken by investigators and are no longer in the hospital in Siberia's Omsk where he was initially hospitalised, the RIA news agency cited the local health ministry as saying. "The 30 days of 'pre-investigation probe' were used to hide this important evidence," Mr Navalny said.
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