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Moscow (dpa) - In an unprecedented wave of raids, masked uniformed men searched the apartments and offices of the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny and his supporters in Russia.
Navalny's employee Ivan Zhdanov posted a video on Twitter showing numerous security guards in a hallway - according to Zhdanov, it is the office of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Other offices as well as the family's Moscow apartment, an apartment of his wife Julia Navalnaja and the private apartments of several employees were searched.
Russian agencies, citing a source at the security organs, reported that the reason for the raids at more than ten locations were violations of corona hygiene requirements.
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Navalny's organization fights against corruption in the Russian power apparatus and has repeatedly had to accept searches and seizures of computers in the various offices.
For the first time this month, Navalny had chosen President Vladimir Putin in one of his widely acclaimed reveal films - and ascribed a huge palace on the Black Sea to him.
The video entitled “A Palace for Putin” was viewed around 95 million times on YouTube a week after its publication.
Putin had declared that he had nothing to do with the billion-dollar property.
The Kremlin rejected the film as "nonsense".
It was a week before the presidential administration announced on Tuesday that entrepreneurs were the owners.
But names were not mentioned.
Nobody has yet committed to the palace.
Nevertheless, there is increasing research that the huge property is connected to the presidential administration.
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The internet portal openmedia.io published information from a Moscow company that listed on its website as a reference that it had taken care of the lighting in the palace - on behalf of the presidential administration.
The entry has since been deleted, but is available in the archive.
As Navalny's lawyer Lyubow Sobol announced, five companies have now confirmed that they have carried out orders from the presidential office for the palace.
On its website, the business newspaper “RBK daily” published a statement from the domestic secret service FSB, which confirmed that there was a no-fly zone around the palace.
This was justified accordingly with a "higher activity of the NATO states".
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Navalny's video
Ivan Zhdanov on Twitter
Internet portal to the "palace"