The Russian penitentiary services (FSIN) admitted today that the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been transferred from the prison where he was serving his sentence, but his new destination is not specified. “Navalni has been transferred from the penitentiary institution located in the territory of Vladimir region“says the FSIN report, according to the Sota portal.

The Russian opposition leader’s entourage had expressed last Monday their concern not knowing his whereabouts for almost a week. Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in prison for extremism, as reported by the Moscow City Court in its ruling last August. “AA Navalni is assigned a prison sentence for a 19 year period which will be fulfilled in a special regime colony,” announced judge Andrei Suvorov in the verdict.

The Russian opponent was indicted in June for creating an “extremist community”incite extremism, founding organizations that infringe the rights of citizens, finance extremism, lead minors to carry out “dangerous acts” and “rehabilitate Nazism.”

So, Navalny He was already serving a nine-year sentence. for crimes of fraud and contempt linked to fundraising for the activities of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), an organization founded by himself and classified as “extremist” by Moscow.

Navalny was imprisoned in January 2021 when he returned to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from poisoning which he and Western governments attributed to Putin’s security service.