Employees of the Institute of Forensic Science of the FSB of Russia, who were involved in the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, systematically tracked the movements of another opposition figure, Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. The surveillance was conducted before he was twice hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning – in 2015 and 2017. This is stated in a joint investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider and Der Spiegel.
It is noted that they followed Kara-Murza during his pre-election trip outside Moscow – it ended less than 48 hours before his first poisoning.
The FSB unit also resumed surveillance of Kara-Murza about five months after he returned from treatment in the United States, the investigation said. The same team continued to monitor him until he was poisoned a second time on February 1, 2017.
According to journalists, FSB officers Roman Mezentsev, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Alexander Samofal and Valery Sukharev were following the oppositionist – their names appeared in the investigation into Navalny’s poisoning.
The FSB group preferred poisoning not in Moscow because of the poorer quality of medical care in the regions, and also because it is easier to get access to the victim’s hotel room there, investigators say.
On February 2, 2017, Kara-Murza Jr. was hospitalized for the second time in two years with symptoms of poisoning and put into a drug-induced coma. In 2015, he was hospitalized with similar symptoms – he was sure that he was deliberately poisoned.
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