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Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny could be involved in a multilateral prisoner exchange between the West and Russia, US officials have told The Wall Street Journal.
In 2021, the Russian leader called on his top security adviser to look into a prisoner swap to free assassin Vadim Krasikov, who was found guilty of killing Chechen dissident Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Germany in 2019.
The court found that the Russian citizen was an officer of Russia's FSB intelligence service and tasked with carrying out assassinations on foreign soil. After Krasikov's guilty verdict, he was sentenced to life in prison and Germany declared two Russian diplomats "persons unwanted".
However, the release of the killer has been raised by the Kremlin in negotiations with Western officials in recent years. And now, Western officials have told the US newspaper that a multilateral deal to exchange Russian prisoners to Western countries could happen, which could include Mr. Navalny.
Last month, Navalny was sentenced by a court to 19 years in prison after being found guilty of extremism charges related to the activities of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
He is already serving a nine-year term for a series of charges he claims are politically motivated.
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