FBK director Ivan Zhdanov said that the 196 volumes of Alexei Navalny's «extremist case» consist mainly of screenshots of various social media accounts and photographs not related to the oppositionist. In addition, there are repeated pages in the case file.
“All 196 volumes are just empty. There is nothing at all that makes sense. They didn’t even try to pretend that they were a real criminal case,” Zhdanov said. According to him, in particular, among the documents there is a sheet with a screenshot of Leonid Volkov's post on Instagram with a photo of his little daughter. Volkov's publication with a picture from the airport also got into the case file.
“During the inspection, it was established that on March 18, 2014 Volkov L.M. published a post in which he indicates that he loves Barajas, the main international airport of the capital of Spain, Madrid, ”the description of the screenshot reads. Investigators added screenshots with reviews about Volkov on the cryptocurrency exchange to the Navalny case file.
In addition to the publications of Navalny’s associates, according to Zhdanov, the documents contain an “infinite” number of protocols for inspecting Internet resources — “one volume consists almost entirely of photographs of the pages of the Hill online magazine, where there is simply a mention of Alexei Navalny.” On one of the sheets from the case file, there was a screenshot of an empty browser page with the investigator's bookmarks: «Boiled omelet», «Vegetable dishes», «Sewing patterns for overweight». There are also photographs of a notebook with blank sheets in the file.
Navalny's associates also found out that a few days before the start of the hearings on the «extremist case,» Judge Andrei Alexandrovich Suvorov called FSB officer Denis Khvorov. Then three meetings in a row took place and they contacted again. What exactly Suvorov and Khvorov discussed is unknown. Last year, when Navalny was being tried under articles of fraud and contempt of court, Judge Margarita Kotova called up a member of the presidential administration.
Today, the Moscow City Court, at an offsite hearing in IK-6 in the Vladimir Region, passed a sentence on Navalny in an «extremist case.» The politician was accused of calls to extremism, creation of an NPO that infringes on the rights of citizens , financing of extremism, creation of an extremist community, engaging minors in dangerous acts and rehabilitation of Nazism. Mediazona conducted online from the court.
Navalny's «extremist» case. Verdict