Oleg Navalny in the courtroom of the Moscow City CourtMOSCOW, January 26 Lublinsky Court of Moscow February 18 will consider the requirement of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to replace the brother of Alexei Navalny Oleg with a suspended sentence with a real one in the case of incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules, RIA Novosti was told in the instance. «, — the interlocutor of the agency said. «, but the details have not yet been disclosed. As the court established, due to the appeals of Oleg Navalny and other defendants, people, including patients with COVID-19, came to an uncoordinated action on January 23 last year, «creating the threat of mass disease.» Navalny was sentenced to a year of probation, in October the Moscow City Court approved this decision. Alexei Navalny himself ended up in a colony just after the suspended sentence in the case of embezzlement of funds from Yves Rocher was replaced with real imprisonment due to violations of the probation regime. Oleg Navalny already has a criminal record: in 2014, he, along with his brother Alexei, was convicted in the case of embezzlement of 26 million rubles from Yves Rocher. Aleksey then received three and a half years probation, and Oleg — the same term, but real imprisonment, in a general regime colony. He was released from prison in 2018.
