The announcement comes after his circle denounced that he was missing
Russian authorities have confirmed that prominent opponent Alexei Navalni has been transferred to a maximum-security prison in the Vladimir region, on the outskirts of the capital Moscow, after his circle reported that his whereabouts were unknown.
“Navalni has been transferred to a strict regime colony, IK-6, in the town of Melejovo, in the Vladimir region,” said the chairman of the regional Commission for Public Supervision, Sergei Yazhan, in a statement to Russia’s Interfax news agency.
During the day on Tuesday, Navalni’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, denounced the opponent’s whereabouts as unknown after he was transferred from prison where he was serving an 11-year sentence. “Navalni has been transferred from penal colony number 2,” he said, before adding that “neither his lawyers nor his relatives have been informed of this transfer.” However, Yarmysh stressed that there were “rumours” about his transfer to IK-6 in Melekhovo.
Navalni has been in jail since he returned to Moscow in January 2021, after recovering in Berlin from severe poisoning suffered a few months earlier. Then the Justice Department ordered him to go to jail to serve a two-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud issued in 2014.
He was then sentenced in March to a further nine years in prison after being found guilty of fraud and contempt, the latest charge of insulting a judge and prosecutor at a libel trial against a World War II veteran (1941-1945) in a message posted on the social network Twitter in June 2020, in which case he was fined 850,000 rubles.
Source: La Verdad
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