Russian prosecutors said on Thursday they saw no need for a criminal investigation into the sudden illness of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whom his supporters suspect was poisoned, and that they had found no sign that any crime had been committed.
The Interior Ministry said it had started a preliminary investigation into the case, but this was routine.
According to a statement released Thursday by a branch of Russia's Interior Ministry, investigators in Siberia have been working on "establishing all the circumstances of the incident," conducting forensic studies and collecting items "that may have probative value."
Navalny, an opposition politician and corruption investigator who is one of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia last Thursday and was taken to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing.
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