The pair are understood to have fallen ill during an event organised by prominent Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Police in Germany has launched an investigation after a Russian journalist and an activist who participated in a Berlin conference reported health problems which suggested they may have been poisoned. Russian investigative news website Agentstvo claims the pair became ill after attending an event on April 29 and 30 organised by exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
A police spokesman told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper: “A file has been opened based on the information available.”
One of the victims, identified as an unnamed journalist who had left Russia recently, experienced unspecified symptoms during the event, believing they may have begun earlier.
The individual went to the Charite University Hospital in Berlin – where Putin critic Alexei Navalny was treated after he was poisoned three years ago.
A second victim was named as Natalia Arno, director of the NGO Free Russia Foundation in the United States, to where she moved after being forced to leave Russia.
Arno was in Berlin at the end of last month before travelling to the Czech capital, Prague, where she experienced symptoms and found that her hotel room had been opened, reported Agentstvo.
Writing on Facebook, she described “sharp pain” and “numbness”.
The symptoms had since receded but had not yet disappeared, she explained.
A statement published on the website of the Free Russia Foundation on Thurday said: “While traveling abroad recently, Free Russia Foundation’s president fell ill under circumstances that cause great concern.
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1772736/russian-exiles-poisoned-berlin-conference-police-probe