The Kremlin so far sees no grounds to launch a criminal probe into the situation around opposition blogger Alexei Navalny, Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
“First, it is necessary to identify the substance, to find out what caused his condition. It means there should be grounds for an investigation. So far, all we can say is that the patient is in a coma,” he said.
If the fact of Russian blogger Alexei Navalny’s poisoning with some definite substance is established, there will be a cause for investigation, Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.
“If the substance is established and if it is established that this is poisoning, then, of course, this will be a cause for investigation,” he said.
“Medics are addressing this matter, first Russian doctors and then German doctors. They are conducting phase one of this investigation, trying to find out what has caused the condition the patient is in now. So far, regrettably, to no avail,” he said.
Peskov stressed that there was nothing new in the German clinic’s statement about Navalny’s condition. “The fact of low cholinesterase was established by our medics during the first hours at the Omsk hospital and atropine the Germans are talking about and which is now being used was administered during the first hour of the patient’s stay in the intensive care unit,” he said.
Source: TASS News Agency