FILE PHOTO: Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference (MSC), on the day of the announcement of the death of her husband by the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence, in Munich, Germany February 16, 2024. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Pool//File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that investigators had concluded his death in an Arctic prison colony in February was caused by a combination of diseases - a finding she rejected as preposterous.
Yulia Navalnaya said she would demand a criminal investigation of her husband's death, which she considers to be murder, and that Navalny's team would continue to conduct its own investigation.
Navalny, 47, died suddenly on Feb. 16. The Kremlin has rejected his supporters' accusation that President Vladimir Putin had him murdered. His death certificate said he died of natural causes.
(Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
