MOSCOW, December 20 - RAPSI. Ukrainian investigators will probe claims by opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev that he was kidnapped while seeking asylum in Kiev, Razvozzhayev's attorney Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI.

While in Kiev, Razvozzhayev applied for political asylum with the UNHCR. He mysteriously disappeared after leaving the UNHCR office, and ended up in the custody of the Russian police.

The Investigative Committee later reported that Razvozzhayev came to them on his own accord, declaring that he wanted to confess.

He was charged with organizing public unrest together with Left Front movement coordinator Sergei Udaltsov and his aide Konstantin Lebedev. The case against them was initiated after the broadcast of the "Anatomy of Protest 2" documentary film on the NTV broadcasting network.

The film claimed that the opposition was organizing a coup using funds from abroad and showed Udaltsov and his companions allegedly talking with Givi Targamadze, who at the time headed Georgia's Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee, and is said to have been involved in planning the "color" revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, as well as the mass riots in Belarus.

Initially, Razvozzhayev gave a full confession. However, he later claimed that he had confessed under coercion and that he had been tortured.

It also became known on Thursday that Razvozzhayev was transported from Moscow to Angarsk, Irkutsk Region, as part of investigation into the case on robbery that allegedly took place 15 years ago.

Pursuant to the criminal case materials, Razvozzhayev and his alleged accomplices decided to rob a man from Angarsk who was trading fur products. Investigators said the armed individuals broke into his apartment, tied him up with Scotch tape, and demanded his property on December 4, 1997.

"Then, Razvozzhayev and his accomplices stole a video camera and 500 fur hats, inflicting losses amounting to 95 million pre-evaluation rubles," the Investigative Committee reported earlier.