NAVALNY VIDEO PUTIN’S PALACE, HISTORY OF WORLD’S LARGEST BRIBE BREAKS RECORD

Sun 24 January 2021:

Navalny and his team posted a video on YouTube claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin built a palace on the Black Sea coast for $1.4 billion with the “bribes he got.”

The video, which claimed the palace is “the most expensive in the world”, has been watched for more than 71.60 million times.

Peskov, criticizing the allegations on Friday, said: “Putin does not have such a palace. He does not have any palace.”

Navalny, 44, who received treatment in Germany after alleged poisoning, was arrested in the Russian capital Moscow upon his return Sunday evening. Russian authorities said he had violated probation terms from a suspended sentence on a 2014 money-laundering conviction, which Navalny says is “politically motivated”.

Less than 25 hours after his return, Moscow’s Khimki Court ruled that he will remain in custody on a 30-day pre-trial detention.

Navalny is now behind bars in Moscow’s infamous jail Matrosskaya Tishina.

In an Instagram post he wrote through his lawyers on Wednesday, Navalny said: “I’d read about it [the prison] in books and now I’m here. Russian life.”

The prominent opposition figure fell sick last August on a flight to Moscow. After an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk, he spent two days in a Russian hospital before being sent to Berlin for treatment.

After tests in several labs, German officials said Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, which was also used according to the UK government in a 2018 attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the British town of Salisbury.

Russian authorities deny any involvement in the case and contend that chemical weapons have neither been developed nor produced by Russia since the last chemical round was destroyed in 2017.