Navalny’s family claims his body, which they do not know about, and Russian authorities have warned that it will not be handed over until the investigation is complete.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny’s family will have to wait. Russian opposition spokesperson Kira Yarmysh reported that “the Investigative Committee directly states that Alexey’s body will not be handed over to his relatives until the investigation is completed” following his “sudden” death. “Immediate Delivery” was requested.

The spokesman confirmed this Saturday that Navalny has died Official notice given to mother Navalny, Lidumila’s but said so The body was not in the Salekhard morgueThe town near the jail colony where he was serving his sentence was where his mother had gone this morning.

“It is clear that the killers want to hide their tracks. That is why they do not hand over Alexei’s body and even hide it from his mother,” Navalny’s team said on Telegram in response to AFP. “

Navalny, 47, former lawyer He fainted after a walk and died on Friday in arctic penal colony pola wolfAccording to Russian authorities, he was in Zarp, about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 mi) northeast of Moscow, where he was serving a sentence of years. “The cause of Navalny’s death was sudden death syndromeAs the family was informed.

“We demand that the body of Alexei Navalny He was immediately handed over to his family.”Yarmish said.

Kira Yarmysh said that Navalny’s mother and lawyer had said Visited the mortuary and found it closedDespite assurances from the penal colony that it was operational and that the body of the Russian opponent was there.

“Alexey’s body is not in the morgue“Yarmysh said on Twitter, ex.

Kira Yarmysh has condemned the lies of the Russian authorities. “They lie virtually all the time, making us run around in circles and cover their tracks,” he wrote in X.

Yarmysh deplored that he was told that they were waiting for the end of the investigation to be able to hand over the body to the family, when only an hour earlier “the lawyers had been informed that “The investigation was concluded and nothing criminal was proven.”Writes.

The same thing has come to light that another lawyer of Navalny, who went to the Salekhard morgue, was told that “the cause of Alexei’s death has not yet been established, on which an examination has been conducted.” New Histological Examination”.

Russian officials reportedly said the results “will not be available” until next week. “It is clear that they lied and did everything possible to prevent the delivery of the body,” the spokesperson says.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalny, has traveled with Navalny’s lawyer to the prison colony where he died, a Russian newspaper reported on Saturday. novaya gazeta,

After the mother informed prison services of Navalny’s death, she said her son was “Alive, healthy and happy” when last seen on 12 February.

According to novaya gazeta“I don’t want to hear condolences. We saw him in prison at a meeting on February 12. He was alive, healthy and happy,” Lyudmila Navalnaya wrote in a Facebook post on Friday.