The U.S. on Thursday issued new sanctions targeting four Russian officials allegedly involved in the 2020 poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
— The U.S. on Thursday issued new sanctions targeting four Russian officials allegedly involved in the 2020 poisoning of opposition leaderThe Treasury Departmentthe sanctioned operatives as Alexey Alexandrovich Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Vladimirovich Osipov and Vladimir Alexandrovich Panyaev. Three of the four have worked with a specialized laboratory run by the Russian security service known as the FSB Criminalistics Institute. All four have previously been targeted by U.S.
Navalny was on a plane to Moscow in August 2020 when he fell ill. The U.S. assessed he was the target of an assassination attempt by Russian operatives using the Soviet-era nerve agentThe Treasury Department said the sanctioned individuals"collaborated to surveil Navalny ahead of the attack, break into his hotel room and apply the chemical weapon to his personal belongings, and they attempted to erase any evidence of their operation following the attack.
The Russian operatives were sanctioned under a 2012 U.S. law known as the Magnitsky Act, named for Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in prison in 2009 after investigating tax fraud. The sanctions block the operatives' access to the U.S. financial system and make it illegal to do business with them. The State Department alsoAfter his poisoning, Navalny spent five months recuperating in Germany before returning to Moscow.
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US sanctions 4 Russians allegedly involved in poisoning of Alexey NavalnyThe U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country's most well-known opposition leader.
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US sanctions 4 Russians allegedly involved in poisoning of Alexey NavalnyThe U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country's most well-known opposition leader.
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US sanctions 4 Russians allegedly involved in poisoning of Alexey NavalnyThe U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country's most well-known opposition leader.
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