While Navalny may never have seen his shadows, this investigation found that other parts of their tradecraft were not that elaborate. More recently they began using burner phones. The FSB agents trailing Navalny – in their late 30s and 40s – usually traveled in groups of three, taking parallel flights as they tracked Navalny. “I have a very strange feeling when I watch their faces,” Navalny said, adding it was “absolutely terrifying” to find out he’d been followed for so long.īellingcat and CNN have established that the FSB’s toxins team comprises six to 10 agents, including qualified doctors, toxicologists and paramedics. He said he did not recognize any of them, and then paused. The investigation also involved German magazine Der Spiegel and Russian online publication The Insider.ĬNN showed photographs of several of the agents to Navalny last week, during an interview at a secret location in Germany, where he is still recovering. Russia has denied involvement in every case.īy examining thousands of phone records along with flight manifests and other documents obtained by Bellingcat, this joint months-long investigation has identified the agents involved, as well as their backgrounds, communications and travel. Bellingcat helped uncover the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine responsible for shooting down the MH-17 airliner in 2014.

In recent years the online investigative outfit Bellingcat has identified the Russian military intelligence agents sent to England to poison former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, and a Russian agent accused of murdering a Chechen activist in Berlin.

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