Offer to Putin
Navalny team: Kremlin critic should be exchanged for zoo murderer
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in custody
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Shortly before Alexei Navalny’s death, according to his support team, there were negotiations with Moscow about a prisoner exchange. Navalny should have been exchanged for the “Tiergarten murderer” Wadim K., who is imprisoned in Germany.
The Kremlin opponent who died in a Russian prison camp According to his team, Alexei Navalny could have been exchanged for the zoo murderer imprisoned in Germany. “Nawalny should be released in the next few days because we had reached a decision to replace him,” said the political director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund, Maria Pevchich, on Monday in a video published on YouTube. “Alexei Navalny could be sitting in this seat right now, right today.”
At the beginning of February, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin was made an offer according to which the zoo murderer Wadim K., who was convicted in Germany in December 2021, could have been handed over to Russia – in exchange for Navalny and two Americans. Pewtschich did not say who exactly was involved in the development of these supposed exchange plans and how specific they were. There was initially no information about this from the federal government. It is also currently unclear who the two US citizens are.
Wadim K. murdered exiled Chechens in Berlin’s Tiergarten
Pevchich accused Putin of personally ordering Navalny’s killing. He did not want to release Navalny at any price. Pewtschich suspects that he realized that the West was ready to exchange Vadim K. and then decided to get rid of Navalny as an exchange object. “This is the absolutely illogical, irrational behavior of a crazy Mafiosi,” she said.
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Wadim K. murdered a Chechen exile in Berlin in 2019. K. is said to have committed the murder on behalf of Russian state authorities. There had been repeated speculation that Putin wanted to free him as part of a prisoner exchange. He most recently confirmed this in an interview with US talk show host Tucker Carlson.