Moscow:
A Russian military court on Monday rejected a complaint from jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny more than the lack of a criminal investigation into his poisoning.
The 235th military court in Moscow dismissed the complaint from Navalny, who accuses Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) of carrying out the poisoning, a spokesperson told AFP.
The opposition figure, who is serving a two-and-a-half year sentence in a penal colony east of Moscow, was not present in court and refused to take aspect through video hyperlink.
Navalny has accused Russian investigators of not launching criminal proceedings to uncover these accountable for his attack in the Siberian city of Tomsk in August final year.
Navalny fell violently ill on a flight more than Siberia in August and inside days was airlifted to Germany for therapy, exactly where he spent months in recovery.
Western authorities later concluded that the 44-year-old had come in to make contact with with Novichok, a Soviet-made nerve toxin.
Siberian police carried out preliminary checks soon after Navalny was hospitalised in August but refused to launch a criminal case citing the “lack of the event of a crime”.
After returning to Moscow in mid-January, Navalny was straight away detained by authorities on charges of violating parole when abroad and in February was sentenced to jail time.
Navalny says the poisoning was carried out on the orders of President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement and rather accused German authorities of refusing to cooperate on the investigation, in spite of Berlin transferring documents of Navalny’s questioning by German investigators.
Russia has brushed aside calls from Western governments to probe the attack, with some officials suggesting that Navalny may perhaps have been poisoned in Germany or even poisoned himself.
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