MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said he knows nothing about negotiations that allegedly took place to discuss the possibility of exchanging Alexei Navalny and two U.S. citizens for Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a life sentence in Germany.
"I am not aware of that. I don't have any information on this matter," Peskov said after being asked to comment on such publications.
When asked to comment on reports that one of the negotiators was businessman Roman Abramovich, Peskov said, "You can ask Abramovich's representatives about that."
"Once again, we are not in charge of this issue," he said.
In December 2021, a German court sentenced Krasikov to life imprisonment in the case of the Tiergarten murder committed in 2019.
The German police found that he came to Berlin with a fake ID and shot and killed Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, at Tiergarten Park on August 23, 2019. The court decided that the Russian authorities ordered Khangoshvili's murder, and that the perpetrator was a member of security services.