News Direct's video: Russian agent tricked into detailing Navalny assassination bid

For story suggestions or custom animation requests, contact tips@nextanimation.com.tw. Visit http://archive.nextanimationstudio.com to view News Direct's complete archive of 3D news animations. RESTRICTIONS: Broadcast: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Digital: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Investigative group Bellingcat reports that Navalny duped a Russian FSB agent into revealing details of the attack. Navalny reportedly impersonated a security official when he called the agent. As part of Navalny's ruse to elicit more details of the assassination attempt, Bellingcat says the trick call was set up to indicate it was coming from an FSB landline. RUNDOWN SHOWS: 1. Show Navalny getting sick, passing out on airplane, after poisoning 2. Navalny and team sets up fake phone ID, phones FSB agent 3. FSB agent believes the ruse, thinks call is coming from another FSB agent, speaks freely 4. Flashback to agents spraying poison on Navalny's clothes, in his hotel room 5. Navalny falls on floor of airplane, stewardess shocked, phones captain, plane turns around 6. Navalny lying in hospital, unconscious, doctor attending, FSB agent steals his clothes VOICEOVER (in English): Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny survived an attempt to assassinate him with the nerve agent Novichok on August 20. Now the BBC reports that the investigative group Bellingcat says that Navalny duped a Russian FSB agent into revealing details of the attack. Navalny reportedly impersonated a security official when he called the agent. As part of Navalny's ruse to elicit more details of the assassination attempt, Bellingcat says the trick call was set up to indicate it was coming from an FSB landline. The agent, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, told Navalny that the Novichok had been placed in a pair of Navalny's underpants. Mr Navalny, who is still recovering in Berlin, posted a recording of the long conversation on his YouTube channel. The FSB agent also told Navalny the swift response of the airline pilot, and the emergency medical team in Omsk, could have been the reason for the failure to kill him. Mr Kudryavtsev said he had been sent to Omsk later to seize Mr Navalny's clothes and remove all traces of Novichok from them. Navalny is known for saying things like "President Putin is sucking the blood out of Russia". SOURCES: BBC, Deutsche Welle, France24, Bellingcat.com https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55395683 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201221-navalny-says-he-tricked-fsb-agent-into-admitting-poisoning https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/ https://www.dw.com/en/alexei-navalny-dupes-fsb-agent-into-admitting-role-in-poisoning/a-56013446 *** ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­---------------- Next Animation Studio’s News Direct service provides daily, high-quality, informative 3D news animations that fill in for missing footage and help viewers understand breaking news stories or in-depth features on science, technology, and health. Sign up for a free trial of News Direct's news animations at http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com/trial/ To subscribe to News Direct or for more info, please visit: http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com