Alexei Navalny has 'bank accounts frozen and flat seized'

  • 2020-09-24 16:35:04
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has had his bank accounts frozen and flat seized after a court order, his spokeswoman says. A day earlier he was discharged from a hospital where he was being treated for Novichok nerve agent poisoning. "They seized the assets and the apartment of a person who was in a coma," Kira Yarmysh said. His team accuses President Vladimir Putin of ordering the poisoning, something the Kremlin strongly denies. The leading opposition figure and vocal critic of Mr Putin collapsed on a flight in Siberia on 20 August, and was later transferred to the Charité hospital in the German capital Berlin for treatment. Germany's government said laboratories in France and Sweden had reconfirmed German tests showing that the poison used on Mr Navalny was a Novichok agent, and numerous governments have demanded an explanation. The Kremlin however has said there is no proof of that. After his discharge on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Navalny was "free" to return to Moscow "at any moment", and wished him "a speedy recovery".

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