The medical report on the death shown the day before to the mother of Alexei Navalny indicated “natural causes” of death, this was reported by the politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh.
According to Lyudmila Navalnaya herself, she spent almost 24 hours in the Investigative Committee building in Salekhard “alone with investigators and criminologists,” and the night before, on February 21, they secretly took her to the morgue, where they allowed her to see Alexei’s body.
Navalnaya reported blackmail and threats from the investigation. They again refused to give her her son’s body, despite the documents being ready, demanding that the funeral be held “quietly,” “in a family setting.”
“They are blackmailing me, setting me conditions on where, when and how Alexey should be buried. It is illegal. With me, they receive orders, either from the Kremlin, or from the Central Office of the Investigative Committee. They want it to be done secretly, without saying goodbye. <…> I don't agree to this. <…> Looking into my eyes, they say that if I don't agree to a secret funeral, they will do something with my son's body. InvestigatorVarapaev openly told me: " Time is not on your side, the corpse is decomposing.”
The murder of Navalny in penal colony No. 3 in Yamal became known on February 16. On February 20, Lyudmila Navalnaya appealed to Putin with a demand to give her the body of her deceased son, and on the same day she filed a lawsuit about the inaction of the Investigative Committee. The consideration of the complaint will be held behind closed doors on March 4.
Navalny was killed. Online