The European Union on Monday adopted sanctions against eight people involved in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni in the summer of 2020, including three Russian intelligence officers, the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The Twenty-Seven directly point the finger at Alexei Alexandrov, Vladimir Paniaev and Ivan Osipov as the perpetrators of the Novichok nerve agent poisoning of the Russian opposition leader and accuse them of violating the convention on the use of chemical weapons.
The measures also extend to several officials of the FSB’s Institute of Criminalistics who are accused of the operation to follow and poison Navalni, who was attacked before a flight from the Tomsk airport, in the interior of Russia.
After Navalni’s case, the EU applied measures against four people responsible for the imprisonment, but now the European ‘black list’ includes the material authors of the attack who are added to those responsible for the Salisbury attack against the former Russian agent Serguei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
In addition to the eight Russians sanctioned, the EU is sanctioning those responsible for the supply of materials necessary for chemical weapons in Syria. These are the two owners of the company MHD Nazier Houranieh & Sons, which supplies the Syrian Studies and Research Center (SSRC) with materials used to produce chemical weapons, as well as the corporation itself.
