The case of Alexei Navalny on contempt of court and fraud with donations will be considered on February 15 by a judge from the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow at an offsite hearing in the Vladimir correctional colony No. 2. This was reported on the website of the court.
According to the file of the case, the politician is accused of two episodes of Article 297 of the Criminal Code (Part 1, insulting the participants in the trial, and Part 4, insulting the judge) and four episodes of Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (large scale fraud).
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Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova told Mediazone that the politician is charged with insulting judge Vera Akimova, prosecutor Yekaterina Frolova, and the grandson of veteran Igor Kolesnikov, who was a witness in a libel case. On June 2, 2020, in a tweet, Navalny called the heroes of the RT video in support of amendments to the Constitution «traitors» and thus, according to the investigation, slandered the veteran Ignat Artemenko, who was among them. In this case, the politician was fined 850 thousand rubles.
Navalny was detained in January 2021 when he returned to Moscow from Germany. There he was recovering from poisoning with the Novichok substance. According to investigators, a group of FSB officers was involved in this.
On February 2, the policy was replaced with a suspended sentence for a real one in the Yves Rocher case, now he is in a colony in the Vladimir region. After Navalny was detained, several more criminal cases were opened, and on January 25, 2022, Rosfinmonitoring added him to the register of terrorists and extremists. This list includes both those under investigation and those convicted in cases of terrorism and extremism, their accounts are blocked.