“To obtain information that could help restore the picture of what happened, about 200 people were interviewed.

These are citizens who contacted Navalny or witnessed his stay in Tomsk and the Tomsk region, as well as some of the passengers who flew in the same plane with him, ”the message says.

It is noted that additional verification activities are currently being carried out.

"In particular, the investigators are re-questioning the employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, who accompanied Navalny during his trip," the website says.

Earlier, the representative of the Foreign Ministry of Germany, Maria Adebar, commented on the situation with the second request of the Russian side for legal assistance in the incident with Alexei Navalny.

Navalny was hospitalized on August 20 in Omsk after he fell ill on the plane from Tomsk to Moscow.

Later he was transported by plane to Germany.