In a new twist in the poisoning of the high-profile Putin critic, Mr Navalny's team says the nerve agent was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought.
The nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought.Initially they suspected he was poisoned with a cup of tea at an airport
A video posted on Mr Navalny's Instagram account showed members of his team searching the room he had just left in the Xander Hotel in Tomsk on August 20, an hour after they learned he had fallen sick in suspicious circumstances. Vladimir Milov, a former deputy energy minister and an ally of Mr Navalny, said his team had outmanoeuvred the FSB security police with their quick thinking: "They took the evidence from under their noses and shipped it out of the country."
Russian investigators are conducting a preliminary probe into the case and want to question two of the foundation's employees, Ilya Pakhomov and Maria Pevchikh, who were with Navalny in Tomsk before he fell ill last month, foundation head Ivan Zhdanov said.
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