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Nov 15, 2022, 5 tweets

A fundamental forgotten but unresolved #OSINT: On August 20, 2020, #Navalny was allegedly poisoned with #Novichok in Tomsk. #Bellingcat then bought flight and phone connection data on the Darknet and extracted from it the private public mobile phone number of an #FSB man, ...

...who then admitted the whole poisoning plot on this private public mobile phone.
Q: How could Bellingcat link that private public cell phone number to an August 2020 crime when that number was not activated until November 2020?

And how is it possible that 3% of the calls with this number were made from Arlington / Washington DC while the pranked FSB cleaner is explaining to his "superior" (Navalny) that he is in Covid quarantine?

There are a number of other Qs: e.g., how could three agents have arrived in Novosibirsk on the same plane when two of them got off in Omsk? How did they know about Omsk prior to the emergency landing? And why does the FSB man say that they never travel together in one plane?

However, I ahave to praise the thriller qualities, though. Literary highlights full of suspense:
1) The death struggle of Yuliya, while Navalny decided to stay in the café.
2) The attempted murder with a fake Bloody Mary.
3) How the poisoned Navalny was 5 minutes late.

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