Navalny may have been killed by poisoning, documents suggest: Report – POLITICO

But the documents obtained by The Insider suggest that references to Navalny’s symptoms were removed, the outlet said.

An earlier version of the documents, signed by Russian investigator Alexander Varapaev, recorded that Navalny had suffered symptoms that medical experts said were consistent with poisoning, according to the report. 

“Convict A.A. Navalny lay down on the floor and began to complain of sharp pain in the abdominal area; he started reflexive ejection of his stomach contents, had convulsions, and lost consciousness, which was immediately reported to the medical staff of the correctional facility,” reads a document on the case that accompanied the investigative committee’s decision. 

In a later final version of the document, however, all references to abdominal pain, vomiting and convulsions were removed, according to The Insider.

“It confirms that they [the Russian authorities] themselves consider that there was something there that they didn’t want to show,” Roman Dobrokhotov, chief editor of The Insider told the Russian-language “Breakfast Show” broadcast on Monday. “If those had been normal symptoms, then why wouldn’t they have left them in?”

The Russian outlet also obtained an inventory of “seized objects” taken from the scene of Navalny’s death, including “samples of vomit,” which an early version of the document says were submitted for examination — although in the final version of the document no vomiting was officially reported, according to Insider.