INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in prison Friday, was known worldwide for his investigations into high-level corruption that
assisted by fraud and organized crime
The investigation linked them to five-star hotels in Greece and other luxury properties abroad, the illegal seizure of a state-owned
enterprise and even murder.Artyom was implicated in the expropriation of an Irkutsk shipping company whose director was allegedly strangled
and accused of buying Swiss residency, while Igor participated in the apparent rigging of auctions to win lucrative state contracts.Yury
following its publication
The punk protest group Pussy Riot made a video highlighting some of the details, featuring uniformed officials gorging themselves and
2016, investigating the wealth of then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
with a lift, multiple helipads and several swimming pools, all surrounded by a six-foot fence
a detail that went on to capture the Russian imagination.Yellow rubber ducks soon became a symbol of corruption, leading to comical images
of a huge rubber duck being detained by police and a 25-day jail sentence for an activist who displayed a duck in his apartment window.A
2017 follow-up investigation went further, examining the alleged funneling of money from oligarchs to Medvedev via charitable foundations
Theyaccused billionaire Alisher Usmanov of bribing him with a Moscow house worth about 5 billion rubles ($54.2 million) and linked him to
Duma declined to investigate its findings
Medvedev remained prime minister until 2020 and now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council.Private Jets for CorgisAnother pair of
investigations, this time into former First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, found he had anundeclared $62-million private jet that was
billionaires Usmanov and Roman Abramovich
a Medvedev cabinet shake-up and was not re-appointed, instead named chairman of Vneshekonombank.The Poisoning of Alexei NavalnyIn December
2020, Navalny published several videos based on an investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat, in collaboration with Der Spiegel, CNN and
the FBK, into his own poisoning in Tomsk that August
Using phone data, flight records and leaked travel databases to show that an elite Federal Security Service (FSB) chemical weapons unit had
have flown to the same destinations as Navalny 37 times
The investigation identified seven operatives commanded by military scientist Stanislav Makshakov and tracked their movements during the
trip where Navalny was poisoned
It also uncovered evidence of a clandestine FSB-run chemical weapons program and indications that the poisoning was ordered by high-ranking
debriefing him on the operation
The man acknowledged his acquaintance with other identified operatives, said the poisoning would have succeeded if not for the emergency
response from Putin himself, who said the Kremlin had not poisoned Navalny and argued that if they had wanted to kill him, they would have
records, they detailed an immense complex complete with an underground ice rink, a lounge purported to contain a stripper pole, a casino, an
Orthodox church and a curiously named akvadiskoteka (aquatic disco).Kremlin spokesman Peskov denied that Putin owned the palace, and
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