MOSCOW (RUSSIA) – A local daily reported on Wednesday that Russian prosecutors have asked Germany to provide details of the medical tests done on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in Berlin after being allegedly poisoned in Siberia last month.
The RBC daily said the office of the general prosecutor had contacted the German justice ministry for details about the critic’s treatment such as test results for poisons, presence of heavy metals and cholinesterase inhibitors.
It is not known whether Berlin has responded to the request.
Last month, Russian prosecutors had said there was no need for any criminal probe into the case as there were no signs that a crime had been committed.
Navalny, who was bothering President Vladimir Putin for more than a decade, fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on August 20 after drinking tea at the airport. His supporters believe he was poisoned. However, Russian authorities said there was no evidence of this.
He was flown from a Siberian hospital to Charite Hospital in Berlin where doctors opined he could have been poisoned with a cholinesterase inhibitor, which is found in nerve toxins like the one used in the poisoning bid of a Russian double agent in England in 2018.