The journalist writes in the latest edition of his book Murder in the Gulag about the life and death of Navalny that the references were removed, ‘almost as if someone high up in the Kremlin didn’t want people to know that [Putin] had had Navalny poisoned.’.
The activist’s death while serving a 19-year sentence followed a string of murders including that of Alexander Litvinenko, a former spy turned Kremlin critic who was poisoned by radioactive Polonium in London, and the Salisbury assassination attempt against Russian dissident Sergei Skripal with nerve agent Novichock.
A leaked report into Alexei Navalny’s death provides ‘compelling evidence’ that he was poisoned, according to the author of a best-selling book about the opposition leader.
John Sweeney said a Russian detective had recorded how Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic vomited and went into convulsions shortly before his death a year ago today.
‘A detective, Alexander Varapaev, bagged all of Navalny’s stuff after his death, including a copy of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, lots of pills, a breathing mask for his asthma, loo roll and clothes and coats.
