Following the brutal hammer attack on Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s confidant Leonid Volkov, who died in custody, in Lithuania, two suspects have now been arrested in Poland.
The suspects will soon be transferred to Lithuania once procedural steps are completed, Polish President Gitanas Nauseda told Lithuanian Radio in Vilnius on Friday. He thanked the Polish authorities for their work. There was initially no comment from them.
The head of state of the Baltic EU and NATO country initially provided no further information about the two suspects and the possible extradition date. The Lithuanian police also did not comment on this.
Robbed in front of his house
Volkov, who was living in exile in Lithuania, was attacked and injured outside his home in Vilnius in March. The background to the crime is still unclear. The close confidant of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in a prison camp on February 16, blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lithuanian intelligence suspected that Russian special services were behind the attack on the opposition figure.
Volkov welcomed authorities’ success in the investigation – without knowing further details himself. “I have seen how energetically and persistently the Lithuanian police worked on this case over the past month, and I am very happy that this work was successful,” he wrote on Telegram. ‘Well, we’ll know the details soon. I can not wait.”
Source: Krone
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