The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow has received criminal cases of fraud and contempt of court against Alexei Navalny. According to the court file, now the materials of both cases are with the judge.
However, the name of the judge is not yet known. The date of the preliminary meeting is also not specified.
Remember that there are now five criminal cases under consideration against Alexei Navalny. One of them is about creating and leading an extremist community. The ICR opened a case against Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov. According to the investigation, Navalny, as the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, created and led an extremist community to carry out activities aimed at changing the constitutional order in Russia and undermining public security.
The second case is about fraud during the financing of Navalny’s election campaign in 2013. The investigation believed that the financing scheme proposed by the campaign headquarters was fraudulent. The TFR reopened the investigation in the spring of 2021.
The third criminal case was initiated at the end of 2020 on the fact of fraud with the money of FBK donors. The TFR reported that the case had been opened against Navalny “and other persons.” The investigation believes that Navalny misused the funds received by the FBK for personal purposes, while he claims that the case was fabricated.
The fourth criminal case on money laundering at FBK was initiated on August 3, 2019. There are still no suspects or accused in the case. The fifth criminal case – contempt of court – was initiated as a result of Navalny's skirmish with the judge during the trial, which the state prosecutor considered contempt of court.
