An appeal to the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee demanding an inquiry into whether members of the security services were involved in the poisoning. The application was important because investigations by Navalny himself and by independent media pointed to the involvement of intelligence service officers in surveilling Navalny and in the possible assassination attempt.
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To the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation 14 Kholzunova Lane, Moscow 119160 from the representative of Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, born 04/06/1976 Vladlen Kornelyevich Los Office 21A 19 Leninskaya Sloboda St., Moscow 115280 Tel. +7-985-546-42-75 Email: los@fbk.info
CRIME REPORT
(pursuant to Article 144 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code)
On 20 August 2020, at around 6:00 a.m., politician Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, chairman of the Russia of the Future political party and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, left the Xander Hotel at 24A Krylov St., Tomsk, for Tomsk Airport to return to Moscow from a business trip on S7 Airlines flight No. S7 2614.
During the flight, A.A. Navalny experienced acute pain and symptoms of poisoning by an unknown substance. The flight crew then made an emergency landing in Omsk. A.A. Navalny was hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning at Omsk City Clinical Emergency Hospital No. 1, where he was placed on mechanical ventilation and fell into a coma.
On 22 August 2020, A.A. Navalny was transferred to Charité Hospital (Berlin, Germany). During treatment, samples were taken from A.A. Navalny that confirmed the presence in his body of a toxin, a cholinesterase inhibitor, which is a chemical warfare agent. These findings were confirmed by independent laboratories in France and Sweden. Pursuant to the Chemical Weapons Convention (1993), Germany sent a request to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for technical assistance.
On 6 October 2020, the OPCW issued a report stating that the analyses confirmed the presence in A.A. Navalny’s blood and urine of a biomarker with structural characteristics similar to those of the substances listed in items A.14 and A.15 of the Annex to the Chemical Weapons Convention (OPCW Schedule 1). In other words, the toxin used against A.A. Navalny
belongs to the Novichok family of fluorophosphorus organophosphate nerve agents, which were developed in the USSR and the Russian Federation.
The events described above caused a major public outcry, were widely covered by Russian and international media, and became the subject of broad public discussion.
On 14 December 2020, an investigation by the international investigative group Bellingcat and the publication The Insider was released, according to which, since early 2017, A.A. Navalny had been under surveillance by officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) specializing in toxic chemical substances. All information about the individuals’ phone calls and movements became available from detailed phone billing records and phone geolocation data for the persons listed below.
Frolov Alexei Andreevich Spiridonov Ivan Vasilyevich
Thus, on 13 August 2020, FSB officers Alexander Vladimirovich Panyayev, Alexei Alexandrovich Alexandrov (alias Andreevich), and Ivan Vladimirovich Osipov (alias Vasilyevich) departed on a trip to Novosibirsk and Tomsk following A.A. Navalny. Since 2017, 36 instances have been identified in which these individuals’ movements coincided with those of A.A. Navalny. This group was coordinated from Moscow by FSB officer Oleg Borisovich Tayakin. According to detailed phone billing records and geolocation data for Tayakin’s phone, he was in constant contact with Panyayev, Osipov, and Alexandrov. Every morning, Tayakin spoke by phone with his superior, FSB Colonel Stanislav Valentinovich Makshakov.
Stanislav Makshakov is a chemist and previously worked at the State Institute of Organic Synthesis in the town of Shikhany, Saratov Region. The first toxic agent of the Novichok family was developed at that institution. He currently works at the FSB Criminalistics Institute.
After receiving calls from Tayakin, from 13 to 20 August Makshakov immediately called his superior, Major General Vladimir Mikhailovich Bogdanov, head of the FSB Criminalistics Institute, and Artur Alexandrovich Zhirov, director of the Signal Scientific Center, a federal state unitary enterprise. The Signal Scientific Center is a leading center for cholinesterase inhibitors, a category that includes Novichok. The Signal Scientific Center also has the capability to produce toxic agents of the Novichok family.
On the morning of 20 August 2020, from Tomsk Airport, FSB officer Alexei Krivoshchekov called Tayakin and reported that Navalny had boarded flight S7 2614 on the Tomsk–Moscow route. -
Thus, it is possible to trace the entire chain from the production to the use of the toxic agent against A.A. Navalny, including the names of the direct perpetrators of the attempt on his life.
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I believe that A.A. Navalny was deliberately poisoned by the above-mentioned persons as a result of his public and political activities and his expression of political views on corruption and other socially significant issues of a state and legal nature. The nature and severity of A.A. Navalny’s poisoning, as well as the consequences for his health, indicate an intention on the part of unidentified persons to cause A.A. Navalny’s death in order to put an end to his public and political activities. Based on the above, and pursuant to Article 141 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code,
I REQUEST:
To initiate a criminal case on the grounds of the elements of crimes предусмотренных by Part 3 of Article 30, paragraphs “g” and “l” of Part 2 of Article 105, and Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. I am aware of the provisions of Article 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
15 December 2020 Representative of A.A. Navalny
V.K. Los 3