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The Russian authorities have opened a new criminal case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, this time for large-scale fraud. This was officially announced by the representative of the Investigation Committee Svetlana Petrenko, quoted by RIA Novosti.
She specified that enough data had been collected against Navalny and his associates. The investigation is for funds amounting to 588 million rubles, raised as donations from individuals to non-governmental organizations, including their foundations Anti-Corruption Fund, Media Support Fund, Human Rights Fund.
The money was used for the purposes of these foundations, but Navalny, as their de facto boss, used more than 356 million rubles (more than 3.9 million euros) for personal purposes, including the acquisition of movable property, valuables and payment of expenses, even for vacations abroad.
“Thus, the funds collected from the public have been stolen. Investigation actions are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances surrounding the crime, as well as other people involved in its commission,” Petrenko added.
This happened after yesterday Russia has given Alexei Navalny an ultimatum to return from Germany to this day or face jail time.. The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) charged him with violating his obligations under a suspended sentence he received in 2014. The Kremlin critic was later sentenced to three and a half years in prison in a money laundering case, which he said. that is politically motivated. He became known as “Yves Rocher”.
“The person who received a suspended sentence does not comply with the obligations assigned to him by the court and avoids the control of the inspection for the execution of the sentences,” authorities said.
Navalny was sent a summons to appear at the inspection, because otherwise, according to the Russian Penal Code, his suspended sentence could be replaced by an effective one.
The opposition published a screenshot of the message to his lawyer, who said he had time until today at 9 o’clock to report to the Moscow office.
The FSIN refers to an article in the Lancet medical journal, written on the basis of materials from the Sharite clinic in Berlin. It follows from the article that Navalny has already recovered from the consequences of “his illness” at the end of October and there is no reason to be abroad after that date, that is. “It fails to comply with the obligations assigned to it by the court and deviates from the control of the prison inspection.”
He himself reacted wryly on Twitter, where he wrote:
“AAAAA. FSIN, citing an article in The Lancet, demands that I be jailed. But, sorry, the article is about being poisoned with Novice.” So officially the state recognizes the poisoning. Where is the criminal case? “
AAAAAAAAA The Federal Penitentiary Service, referring to the “Lancet” article, demands that I be imprisoned. But, sorry, an article on how I was poisoned by Novichok. So, at the official level, the state recognized the poisoning. Where is the criminal case? https://t.co/w7Bcx1DND4
– Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 28, 2020
The Yves Rocher case was brought against Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg in 2012. Both were accused of deceiving the cosmetics company and the Multiple Processing Company as intermediaries in the provision of transport and logistics services. During the investigation, representatives of Yves Rocher dropped their charges. However, two years later, the court sentenced Navalny to 3.5 years of probation and his brother to royal prison.
In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights awarded Navalny a compensation of 76,000 euros for violating the presumption of innocence and the right to equal presence in the trial of witnesses of both parties.
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