The U.S. Treasury Department announced this Thursday. 4 new sanctions who cooperated He collaborated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and played an important role. The poisoning of the Russian rival Alexey Navalny With a Novichok-type nerve agent in the summer of 2020.
“The assassination attempt on Alexei Navalni in 2020 shows the Kremlin’s disregard for human rights, and we will continue to use the authorities at our disposal to hold the Kremlin’s executioners accountable,” said the Under-Secretary of the Treasury’s Undersecretary for Terrorism. , Brian E. Nelson.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Thursday. 19 years in prison for extremism against Russian dissidentbranded it as “injustice”. We reiterate our call for their immediate release.”
In particular, Washington added to its “black list” the agent of the Criminalistics Institute of the FSB, Alexei Alexandrovich Alexandrov, who was “main” responsible for the poisoning of his Russian rival, and also spied on the activist Nikita Isaev. He died suspiciously of cardiac arrest during a train journey in 2019.
Likewise, the sanctions extend to Konstantin Kudriavtsev, who belonged to the aforementioned Institute and came to plead guilty. participation in cleaning operations After Navalni got drunk with a nerve agent.
Kudriavtsev was responsible for spying on Russian dissident and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Moscow court for various crimes, including treason, a punishment that has been harshly criticized by the international community.
Finally, the United States sanctioned Ivan Vladimirovich Osipov, who was part of the team that carried out the poisoning, and Vladimir Alexandrovich Panyaev, who was tasked with spying on Navalny several times.
russian rival He became seriously ill while returning from a return flight in August 2020. Moscow After campaigning in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, he made an emergency landing in the Siberian town of Omsk, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit in a coma with assisted breathing.
Later, He was evacuated to Berlin on a medical plane chartered by the nonprofit Cinema for Peace, where he remained in the intensive care unit in an induced coma.. Medical staff later confirmed in a report that Navalni had been poisoned in 2018 with Novichok, a chemical used in the UK against former agent Sergei Skripal, that traced it to Russia, which he denied.