WASHINGTON. Aug 17 (Interfax) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury has included four Russians in its sanctions list whom Washington considers to have been involved in the 2020 incident with Alexei Navalny's health, the department said.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said the Russians - Alexei Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyayev - were "involved in the poisoning of Navalny." They were sanctioned under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which envisages restrictions for human rights violations.
Navalny became ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20, 2020. The plane made a forced landing at Omsk airport. The opposition activist was hospitalized in intensive care in an Omsk hospital, falling into a coma. Navalny began treatment at the Charite clinic in Berlin according to a decision made by his family on August 22, 2020.
Russian doctors said Navalny's condition could have been caused by problems with carbohydrate metabolism, as well as aggravation of chronic pancreatitis involving problems with external and internal secretory functions. Russian specialists did not find any toxic substances in the opposition activist's body.
At the same time, German specialists said on August 24, 2020, that Navalny's condition had been caused by intoxication "with a substance belonging to the cholinesterase inhibitors group."
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on October 6, 2020, that Navalny had been poisoned by a variant of the nerve agent Novichok, which is not included on the lists of the Annex on Chemicals, an annex to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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