Alexei Navalny says Russian agent put poison in his underwear in murder plot
- The opposition leader and Putin critic says he tricked his would-be killer into admitting that the FSB was behind the attempt
- During the call, the agent says Navalny survived the poisoning because the plane he was on made an unexpected emergency landing
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny claimed on Monday he had tricked a security agent into admitting the FSB domestic intelligence agency sought to kill him this summer and placed poison into his underwear.
In a bombshell blog post the Kremlin critic said he called a man called Konstantin Kudryavtsev, claiming he was a chemical weapons expert with the Federal Security Service (FSB).
“I called my killer. He confessed everything,” Navalny said on Twitter.
Navalny said he disguised his phone number and presented himself as an aide to Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev, explaining he needed information for an official report on the attempted poisoning.
He did not provide any proof of his claims, saying a voice analysis “would demonstrate that it is indeed” Kudryavtsev.
Apart from the blog post the opposition leader published an audio recording and a transcript of the phone call and released a video of him conducting the conversation.