Opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is serving a sentence in the strict regime penal colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region, said that a new criminal case had been opened against him. Moreover, the politician committed the crimes imputed to him while in custody.

On Twitter, the politician reports that he is accused of promoting terrorism and calling for it; in public calls for extremism; financing of extremist activities; in the rehabilitation of Nazism.

Navalny writes that investigators consider him the leader of a criminal group that promoted terrorism and extremism on the air of the Popular Politics YouTube channel. It is led by Navalny’s associates. “Lawyers considered that, taking into account the deadlines for these articles, in aggregate, here for 30 years,” the politician writes.

“I am a genius of the criminal world. Professor Moriarty nervously smokes on the sidelines. You all thought that I was in isolation for two years, in prison, and it turns out that I am actively committing crimes. It’s good that the UK was vigilant and did not miss anything,” the politician wrote.

1/7 I am a criminal genius. Professor Moriarty smokes nervously on the sidelines. You all thought that I was in isolation for two years, in prison, but it turns out that I actively commit crimes. It is good that the SC was vigilant and did not miss anything.

— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) October 20, 2022