Shock video shows ‘murdered Alexei Navalny’s bruised body being smuggled out of Russian prison to cover up his death’

SHOCKING footage appears to show Alexei Navalny’s body being smuggled overnight as authorities refuse to release it.

The fierce Putin critic, 47, died on Friday amid claims he was “murdered” by the Russian tyrant.

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A clip has now emerged showing a UAZ van – understood to be carrying his bruised body – in a convoy of prison vehicles and two police patrol cars in the cloak of night.

One car was unmarked, possibly an FSB security service escort. 

The 35-mile midnight dash in -30C temperatures started the day Navalny is reported to have died from his Arctic prison and continued early on Saturday.

It came just hours before Navalny‘s mother Lyudmila, 69, and lawyer arrived at the hellhole jail in an attempt to collect his body.

The Soviet-designed Federal Penitentiary Service van believed to be carrying Navalny is nicknamed a ‘Buhan ka’ – or bread loaf.

After leaving the jail, the motorcade went to Labytnangi before crossing the frozen Ob, the world’s seventh longest river, to Salekhard, according to independent news outlet Mediazona.

On Saturday morning, it was feared Navalny’s body had gone missing when it was not at the morgue his mother was sent to by prison staff.

It was later revealed to be at a different morgue, closely guarded by police – sparking rumours of a cover-up.

And a paramedic who saw his body said it was covered in bruises and had consistent marks that could show he was “murdered” after it was suggested he suffered a seizure in jail.

The paramedic said: “Such damage occurs from convulsions.

“The person is convulsing, they are trying to restrain him, but the convulsions can be very strong, and that’s why bruises appear.”

There were also signs that jail medics had tried to resuscitate Navalny, because there were signs of “chest compressions”.

Navalny’s mother and lawyers have been barred from the morgue after the Kremlin quickly gave the official cause of death as “sudden death syndrome”

No official autopsy has been performed.

Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said “Early in the morning, Alexei’s mother and lawyers arrived at the morgue.

“They are not allowed inside. 

“One of the lawyers was literally pushed out. When asked whether Alexei’s body was there, the employees did not answer.”

The family has now been told checks are still underway to establish the cause of death, even though they had said he died of a “blood clot” or “sudden death syndrome”.

The time given for Navalny’s death – 2.17pm local time on Friday – has also been called into question.

Evidence from an inmate suggests he died during the previous night.

One inmate told Novaya Gazeta Europe they heard “mysterious” commotion the night before Navalny was reported dead.

He said: “It all started when they really sped up our evening search, this usually happens on holidays when the guards are in a hurry to go and celebrate, but [that day] wasn’t a holiday.

“Then they locked us up, forbade any movement between barracks, and tightened security.

“We heard cars drive on to the prison grounds late at night but couldn’t see through our cell windows what they were.”

The prisoner said guards also did an in-depth search of cells on Friday morning and seized a number of items.

Prison officials at the “Polar Wolf” Colony where Navalny was locked up on bogus charges claimed that he died after collapsing on a walk.

Navalny, Putin’s leading domestic critic in Russia, had bravely challenged the tyrant’s rule and his horrific war in Ukraine.

He was locked away on trumped-up charges after a sham trial and has been vocal about his fears of assassination.

The activist was first picked up by Vlad’s brutal police in 2021 after returning to Russia following an assassination attempt.

In total he spent 308 days banged up – and there were reports that a sadistic Putin even demanded to see live footage of the 47-year-old undergoing punishment and being humiliated by guards. 

Navalny also went missing from a hellish Russian jail last year – and his supporters warned at the time that he could be executed.

He was later found in one of the toughest prisons in the country in Siberia – known as “the Polar Wolf” colony.

Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya at the IK-3 penal colony

Cities across the world have made up makeshift memorial sites for the Kremlin critic including Amsterdam (pictured), Tokyo, London, Madrid, California, Berlin and Lisbon

Navalny died at the ‘Polar Wolf’ prison colony