VLADIMIR Putin’s assassins developed a deadly poison that was used to kill Alexei Navalny, a top Russian scientist living in exile has claimed.
Vil Mirzayanov is convinced that Putin’s secret service agents murdered his number one enemy with a new Novichok-style toxin.
AFPAlexei Navalny seen making a heart with his hands as he was sent to jail[/caption]
The stark cell where was taken for ‘punishment’ shows vomit on blood
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It is a ‘punishment cell’ where is believed to have been poisoned[/caption]
Navalny, 47, died in Spartan Arctic penal colony Polar Wolf after he was convicted in several fabricated criminal cases as part of the Kremlin’s ruthless crackdown on dissent.
When cruel Russian tyrant Putin heard the news, he was seen to smile.
Startling new evidence has now emerged that Navalny was poisoned in his Arctic hellhole jail.
His wife Yulia Navalnaya said two Western countries have proof from tests on his biological samples, which were smuggled abroad.
First photographs show the stark cell where he was taken for “punishment” on the day he died in February 2024.
They were taken moments after his body had been removed – with vomit on the floor, backing the case that he was poisoned.
Mirzayanov, who worked on the sinister Novichok’s development in Soviet times, believes the FSB tried to cover their tracks by using an unknown poison.
He told independent TV Rain: “My hypothesis is that a new, as yet unknown, toxic agent was used, say, based on carbamates.
“They can act over time rather than instantaneously like some nerve-paralysing agents.
“But they can also have serious, sometimes irreversible, effects on a person.
“There are many methods of use – by contact, aerosol – many variants…..”
Russia is illegally developing deadly poisons as weapons in defiance of the Chemical Weapons Convention, he alleged.
“It could not use known substances [like Novichok], because if detected there would be a huge scandal with consequences,” he said.
“That leaves one version: that a new agent was used here, based on a new – well, a known class of compounds – for example, carbamates, which are widely used as insecticides and can be highly toxic.
“Among them there are compounds that cause paralysis and convulsions similar to those seen with organophosphate poisoning.”
Putin is known to often using poison to take down his enemies – such as the attempt to kill Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018.
He is believed to revel in the “theatricality” of the method – taking tips from his days in the KGB.
Yulia blasted the Kremlin, and said in no uncertain terms: “Putin is guilty of the murder of my husband”.
ReutersHe was held in the remote ‘Polar Wolf’ prison[/caption]
ReutersYulia has taken up her husband’s fight against Putin[/caption]
APAlexei and Yulia stood against the Kremlin[/caption]
Navalny’s widow said: “In February 2024, we managed to obtain, smuggle abroad, and hand over biological materials of Alexei to a laboratory in one of the Western countries.
“A few months ago, I learned that the results were obtained, and two laboratories from two different countries independently concluded that Alexei was poisoned.”
She said the Western states involved have “no legal grounds to initiate and conduct a criminal case”.
Yet she feared the countries – not named – did not want to risk upsetting Putin by going public with the evidence.
“There are political considerations,” she said.
“There are always plenty of reasons not to publish this information.
“They don’t want the inconvenient truth to come out at an inopportune moment.
“Therefore, we cannot get official results stating exactly which poison he was poisoned with.”
The type of poison used to slay her husband was not being revealed due to “serious men in suits” in these two Western countries, she said.
She insisted: “The laboratories of the two countries reached the conclusion: Alexei was killed, namely poisoned….
“Alexei was my husband and my friend, the person closest to me, and a symbol of hope for a better future for our country….”
His death triggered misery “because Putin killed their hope, our hope”.
AFPNavalny waves as he appeared in court via video link from his cell[/caption]
“I assert that Vladimir Putin is guilty of the murder of my husband, Alexei Navalny.
“I accuse the Russian security services of developing banned chemical and biological weapons.
“I demand that the laboratories that conducted the tests publish the results.
“Stop cosying up to Putin for some supposed higher considerations.
Last year Navalnaya dismissed information from Russian investigators that her husband had died from “a combination of diseases”.
Releasing the cell pictures of where her husband died, Yulia Navalnaya said: “It seems there are no recordings from the last day of his life.
“But we have photos.
“I am showing them for the first time now.
“This is the very cell number 16 where Alexei was dying.
“Where he felt bad, where he was vomiting.
“Where he lay on the floor moaning in pain, where he convulsed while [prison guard] Senior Warrant Officer Alexander Belich first locked the grate, then the door, and ran away to avoid seeing what was happening inside.”
Reuters Navalny was one of the few leading opposition figures in Russia[/caption]