Russia suspects policeman in new data leak case over Navalny poisoning

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has identified a policeman as a suspect in a criminal investigation into a flight data leak that could have been used to out jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's alleged poisoners, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday.

Investigators suspect a police major in St Petersburg of accessing an official database and selling air passenger data of a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow last August that Navalny was on board the day he was poisoned.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, collapsed on the flight in a near-fatal poisoning in Siberia with what many Western nations said was a nerve agent.

The policeman, who was not named in Kommersant's article, is suspected of abuse of power, which carries a punishment of up to ten years in jail. It did not say if anyone had been arrested.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-suspects-policeman-data-leak-091633284.html

[SunSeeker]

1. Glad to see Navalny has supporters among the police. Bad sign for Putin.

Which explains why he is overreacting.

[lagomorph777]

2. Yeah; it looks like Putin is in real trouble this time.

[SunSeeker]

3. I hope so. nt

[soothsayer]

5. Nothing ever happens to that crook but here's hoping

[NotAPuppet]

4. The policeman will accidentally

fall out of a window within the next few days like so many before him in Russia, and the world will once again look away.