The director of the Siberian hospital where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was treated has disappeared after being poisoned.

Alexander Murakhovsky, who was director of the No.1 Emergency Hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk when oppositionist Alexei Navalny was admitted in August 2020 after suffering poisoning, He disappeared on Friday May 7 and has still not been found., as reported by the General Directorate of the Interior Ministry of Omsk Province.

“On May 8, 2021, the police received a report that in Omsk province on May 7, Murakhovsky left a hunting field on a quad (quadricycle) towards the forest, and so far its location is unknown “, explained the police entity, according to a statement from the Russian news agency Sputnik.

In Search of Murakhovsky Volunteers, police, agents of the Russian Guard (Rosguardia), rescuers from the emergency services and residents of the area participate. A helicopter and several drones were also mobilized for the operation.

Navalny entered the hospital that the now missing ran Murajovski on August 20 after feeling ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. Faced with the symptoms, consistent with intoxication, the doctors caused a coma and treated him with atropine, a drug often used as an antidote to nerve agents.

However, Murakhovsky publicly announced that Navalny had been diagnosed with a metabolic disorder. In anticipation, the opponent’s wife, Yulia, demanded that Navalny be transferred abroad.

Murakhovsky initially refused, saying the opposition’s condition made his transfer impossible, but after hours of international pressure he ended up allowing Navalny’s transfer, and On August 22, he went to Charité University Hospital in Berlin, where he was diagnosed with poisoning. Navalny’s environment and the adversary himself blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for what happened.

However, Moscow assures that during Navalny’s treatment in Omsk, no sign of his suspected poisoning was found and has requested reports from foreign media who dealt with him.

Murakhovsky’s disappearance is not the only episode that I suspect among those having something to do with the treatment of the opponent. sIn February 2021, Sergey Maximishin, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the Siberian Hospital, died “suddenly” at the age of 55. As the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, he was one of the main doctors in the hospital. Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff, confirmed at the time that Maximishin was in charge of treating the opposition leader during his visit to the Omsk hospital, in particular his induced coma.

The Leader of the Opposition is currently in prison. He was arrested on January 18 upon arrival at Moscow airport for failing to respect probation after spending months in Germany. Moscow rejects the opposition’s accusations against Putin.

His arrest caused protests across the country which have been the biggest dissent against the Kremlin in years.

April 23 Navalny, who is in a delicate state of health, announced that he quit the hunger strike he led for 24 days in prison to demand that you be seen by your trusted doctors.

The Leader of the Opposition asserted that with the “tremendous support from good people across the country and around the world“, he has been examined twice by external doctors, the last time just before the massive march his team called for support on Wednesday in more than 100 Russian cities.

Thanks to international and national pressure, Navalny was taken to a civilian hospital in the Vladimir region, about 200 kilometers from Moscow.

Previously, the authorities had only agreed to admit him to a prison hospital near the prison where he is serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a former criminal case to receive serum and vitamin therapy.

On April 29, Navalny wore emaciated Yes Out of print in his first appearance since declaring the end of the hunger strike, during which denounced the Russian justice in the middle of the dissolution of the network of regional offices of its foundation.

Navalny, shaved head, remained provocative, although his virtual appearance showed that he had lost weight.

The Russian activist appeared in court to appeal a conviction for defamation of a veteran of the Second World War, a separate case that landed him in jail. Dismissing the charges, he said: “I demand that the people who collected signatures (against him) and the prosecutors to be brought to justice.”

Navalny also spoke with his wife, Yulia Navalnya, who was physically present in court and gave him details of his weight and what he last ate.

The European Union (EU), the United States and the great Western powers have held the Putin government accountable for Navalny’s health.

After weeks of increasing pressure, Navalny’s allies announced last month they were dissolving their network of campaign offices in Russia while a court examines the advisability of declaring them and their Anticorruption Foundation (FBK) “Extremists”.

If the network is declared an extremist, the authorities will gain the legal power to impose prison terms on activists and freeze bank accounts. The court said on Thursday it would hold its next hearing in the case on May 17.

“It is impossible to maintain the work of the Navalny headquarters network in its current form: this would immediately lead to criminal convictions for those who work at headquarters, those who collaborate with them and those who help them, ”he said. Leonid Volkov, one of Navalny’s close allies, in a YouTube video.

As part of the growing persecution of the Kremlin on April 30, lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who heads Team 29, a Russian NGO that defends espionage defendants and is also involved in the defense of the opposition leader’s organizations Navalny, was arrested in Moscow on charges of revealing data from the summary of a preliminary investigation.

According to sources cited by the agency Interfax, “The case is being dealt with by the commission of inquiry” of Russia.

If found guilty, the lawyer faces a fine of 80,000 rubles (about $ 1,200) or up to three months in prison.

With information from Europa Press and agencies

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