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The Lefortovo Court of Moscow sentenced the politician Alexei Navalny (included in Russia in the list of organizations and individuals involved in extremist activities or terrorism) to nine years in a strict regime colony on a case of fraud and contempt of court. According to Kommersant, he was also ordered to pay a fine of 1 million 200 thousand rubles.
According to the court, Navalny and his associates founded the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK – the liquidated Anti-Corruption Fund, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent and recognized as a banned extremist organization) in order to collect donations under the pretext of anti-corruption activities and use them for personal purposes (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case contains four episodes of fraud – according to the number of victims. The court estimated the damage in this case at 2.7 million rubles. Lawyers intend to appeal both verdicts.
The court also found that Alexei Navalny allowed insults to the participants in the court session (part 1, part 2 of article 297 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) during the consideration of the libel case against the veteran in February last year. At those meetings, Navalny, according to the court, made offensive language against judge Vera Akimova, state prosecutor Ekaterina Frolova and witness Igor Kolesnikov.
The meeting at which the verdict was passed in a new criminal case against the politician was an away one – it took place in the Pokrovskaya colony, where the politician is kept.
The social network “VKontakte” on the day of the verdict blocked the page of Alexei Navalny. According to TASS, this was done at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, which considered that “deliberately false socially significant information was posted there.”
A week earlier, it was reported that the prosecutor demanded that the oppositionist be sentenced to 13 years in prison and a fine of 1.2 million rubles.
According to RIA Novosti, Navalny’s lawyers Olga Mikhailova and Vadim Kobzev were taken away in a paddy wagon after the court session and the press approach.
Source: Rosbalt
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