The Russian opponent, currently in Germany, is threatened with imprisonment if he returns to Russia. Since coming out of the coma, Alexeï Navalny accuses Vladimir Putin of having ordered his murder.
Alexeï Navalny is currently in Germany, where he was evacuated in August after suddenly falling into a coma.
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Russian justice has registered a complaint requesting the conversion of a suspended prison sentence targeting the opponent Alexeï Navalny in prison, a measure which according to its supporters aims to prevent him from returning to Russia.
Alexeï Navalny is currently in Germany, where he was evacuated in August after suddenly falling into a coma. Western laboratories have concluded that it was poisoned by a Soviet-designed nerve agent.
According to the website of the Moscow courts, a complaint demands “the annulment of a suspended sentence” against Alexeï Navalny for “failure to comply with the obligations imposed” after “not having repaired a damage or having committed a new offense”. The site specifies that this request was recorded on Monday.
“No damage”
On Twitter, Alexeï Navalny said Tuesday that the complaint had been lodged by the prison services (FSIN) for a conviction dating from December 2014. “Putin is so furious to see that I survived my poisoning that he asked the prison services to go to court to turn my reprieve into a firm sentence, ”commented the 44-year-old opponent.
He had been sentenced to three and a half years of suspended imprisonment for the embezzlement of 26 million rubles from a subsidiary of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher. In November 2014, Yves Rocher had for his part said that he had suffered “no damage”.
In October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Alexeï Navalny and his brother, sentenced to prison, had been deprived of the right to a fair trial. At the end of December, the FSIN claimed that Alexey Navalny had not respected the conditions of his reprieve by not returning to Russia after his convalescence.
New investigations for “fraud”
Since coming out of the coma, Alexeï Navalny accuses Vladimir Putin of having ordered his murder. The Kremlin rejects the accusations, saying in particular that he may have suffered from a poor diet or poisoned himself. “What will they still imagine so that Navalny does not return to Russia?”, Reacted Tuesday his spokesman, Kira Iarmych.
Russian investigators opened at the end of December against this opponent already targeted in several cases of new investigations for “fraud”, an offense for which he risks up to 10 years in prison.
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