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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp on February 16, during a memorial march for Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015.
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According to his team, Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp, could have been exchanged for the Tiergarten murderer imprisoned in Germany.
“Navalny should be released in the next few days because we had reached a decision to replace him,” said the political director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund, Maria Pevchich, in a video published on YouTube on Monday.
Moscow - At the beginning of February, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin was made an offer according to which the zoo murderer Vadim K., who was convicted in Germany in December 2021, could have been handed over to Russia - in exchange for Navalny and two Americans.
Pewtschich did not say who exactly was involved in the development of these supposed exchange plans and how specific they were.
There was initially no information about this from the federal government.
Pevchich accused Putin of personally ordering Navalny's killing.
He did not want to release Navalny at any price.
Pewtschich suspects that he realized that the West was ready to exchange Vadim K. and then decided to get rid of Navalny as an exchange object.
“This is the absolutely illogical, irrational behavior of a crazy Mafiosi,” she said.
Wadim K. murdered a Chechen exile in Berlin in 2019.
K. is said to have committed the murder on behalf of Russian state authorities.
There had been repeated speculation that Putin wanted to free him as part of a prisoner exchange.
He most recently confirmed this in an interview with US talk show host Tucker Carlson.
dpa