MYSTERY over the disappearance of Putin’s stark enemy has grown deeper after he vanished from his hellhole prison cell 17 days ago.
Kremlin’s top critic Alexie Navalny was once again not brought to the meetings that could have led to his trials, his team wrote on Telegram today.
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They also announced a reward – a cryptocurrency sum – for any reliable information about Navalny.
This comes after the Russian lawyer and opposition leader went missing from his prison cell 17 days ago.
His spokesperson Kira Yarmysh revealed that his lawyer was told Navalny is no longer in the prison colony where he was last week.
“On Friday and throughout today, neither IK-6 nor IK-7 responded to them [the lawyers].
“Obviously, the command has now been given. Where Alexey is is still unknown,” she said.
And his name mysteriously vanished from prison records six days after his disappearance.
Officials are allegedly refusing to tell them where he has been transferred amid fears he might have been shipped off to an even more brutal prison.
Navalny has been a vocal activist and a defiant critic of Putin’s regime – and has been described as the man the Russian president “fears most” by the Washington Post.
Plans of wiping him out by Kremlin’s top order have been alleged by his team after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in 2020 and later jailed in trials slammed by Amnesty International.
His most recent sentence in 2022 replaced an earlier one, condemning him to serve around seven years in a more remote “strict regime penal colony”.
Until a month ago, Navalny was believed to be in a hellish gulag about 155 miles north of Moscow.
Before his mysterious disappearance, he reportedly collapsed in his cell and hasn’t been seen since.
“He fell ill in his cell last week. He got dizzy and was laid down on the floor.
“The colony staff came over immediately and gave him an IV.
“We don’t know what it was, but given the fact that he’s not being fed, is being kept in a punishment cell with no ventilation and the time for walks has been reduced to a minimum, it looks like a hunger faint,” told his team.
Navalny wasn’t allowed to be seen by anyone after he’d fainted.
His Lawyers were told they had to wait to see him until the time was right after repeatedly being denied entry to where he was being kept.
Previously, Navalny claimed Putin had been desperate to silence him after he and his team published a list of 200 oligarchs accused of being “directly responsible for the aggressive war launched against Ukraine”.
The list of 200 names was part of a wider “List of 6,000” Putin accomplices and Russian war enablers that angered the state leaders.
“The Kremlin’s really furious at our work to promote the “List of 6,000” – the list of oligarchs, bribe takers and warmongers, against whom sanctions must be imposed.
“The people on the list are very worried and are demanding measures to be taken to make the ACF (and me personally) ‘back off’,” Navalny had claimed.
A video interview earlier this year with him revealed he suffered from mystery stomach aches and seizures – and had lost 18lbs in less than a month, sparking fears of a slow poisoning.
Most of his time in jail has reportedly been served in isolation.
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