Siberian investigators dispute claims that Navalny’s team transported Novichok-laced water bottle to Berlin

The alleged poisoning

The alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny took a new twist on Thursday, when Russian investigators contradicted assertions that a bottle with traces of Novichok was sent to Germany.

Top Siberian cop Sergey Potapov said that security at Novosibirsk airport did not find any large bottles in the luggage of Navalny’s associates when they flew to Tomsk after the activist was taken to hospital. The Moscow protest leader’s team previously asserted that they took “everything that could be hypothetically useful [from his Omsk hotel room], and passed it on to doctors in Germany.”

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