Investigative collective Bellingcat has identified the team from the Russian intelligence and security agency FSB that attempted to assassinate opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
That says Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on Twitter.
Higgins writes on Twitter that investigators rely on phone and flight data. It would show that an FSB team followed the politician “more than 30 times since he announced he would run for president.”
Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critics, fell seriously ill aboard a Russian domestic flight in late August.
He initially ended up in a hospital in Omsk, Russia. After a few days, the authorities permitted the politician to fly to Germany.
International experts later determined that Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve poison.