Russian political opponent found guilty in yet another trial against him for fraud and insulting a judge
The Russian political opponent, Alexei Navalny
– currently in prison – was found guilty in his retrial for fraud and insulting a judge, which could cost him a new prison sentence of up to a decade. Alexei Navalny has committed fraud, notably misappropriation of someone else’s assets through lies and breach of trust, said judge Margarita Kotova in her sentence. The sentence to which Navalny will be sentenced will be announced at a later date: the prosecution has asked for a 13-year prison sentence, while the defense has insisted on acquittal, stressing the absence of a crime in Navalny’s actions. The verdict was announced at an off-site court hearing in the N2 penal colony in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir region, where Navalny has been detained since last year.
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Perch Aleksej Navalny in carcere
The dissident, an open critic of the Kremlin and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, has been in prison since January last year. The sentence he is serving, two and a half years in prison, relating to a trial for embezzlement against the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher; the trial, which reached a ruling in 2014, was defined by the European High Court for Human Rights as a pretext and unreasonable. The sentence was suspended on a conditional basis.
Then the poisoning, for which the Russian government was directly accused: in August 2020 Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent, the Novichok, while flying to Moscow. And he had been transferred to Berlin for treatment. During this period, therefore, he had not been able to comply with the precautionary measures that required him to regularly present himself at his detention officer: on February 2 a Moscow court modified a previous sentence that did not provide for prison with a two-year sentence and a eight months in prison, later shortened by two months.
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March 22, 2022 (change March 22, 2022 | 09:34)
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