Russia (bbabo.net), - The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has begun considering a criminal case against the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, a foreign agent organization recognized as extremist, banned in the Russian Federation and liquidated by court decision) Alexei Navalny. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale and contempt of court.
The court session is taking place in an away format - in a general regime colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, where the blogger is serving a sentence under another sentence - the so-called Yves Rocher case.
There is nothing extraordinary in such off-site court hearings. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, over the past 3 years, about 9,000 field court hearings have taken place in penitentiary institutions. More than 9 thousand people were involved in them. So no special procedure was applied to Navalny.
The defendant's side argued that this trial would allegedly be held behind closed doors. Over 100 journalists from about 40 media outlets were accredited to cover this meeting. And there were no "retractions". A live broadcast was organized from the colony for full coverage of the meeting for all media representatives who arrived. Moreover, the organization of the court session is arranged in such a way that relatives of the defendant were allowed to attend.
Supporters of the accused are spreading myths that Navalny is being tried for some imaginary crimes. But in reality, we are talking about a banal fraud, and with the money that his associates collected for him. For so-called social activities.
New criminal cases of fraud were opened more than a year ago. According to investigators, Navalny and "other persons" stole about 350 million rubles allocated to his foundation as donations. As part of the investigation, it was possible to find out that at the moment when funds were received in the fund’s accounts as donations, 222 bitcoins were withdrawn from Alexei Navalny’s bitcoin wallets, which is equivalent to about 97 million rubles at the cryptocurrency exchange rate for that period.
In addition, from 2017 to the beginning of 2020, Navalny and his family members made 21 expensive trips abroad. 4 trips were made to the USA, 3 trips to Spain and Germany, 2 times the blogger visited Italy, Austria and Thailand. The blogger's family once visited France, Greece, Egypt and Latvia during that period.
The last time - before the borders were closed due to the coronavirus - Navalny went to rest with his wife in Paris on February 14. This was the 22nd trip. At the same time, the largest transfers were recorded just before this trip and after it - on January 30 and February 25. A total of 41.28 thousand dollars (at the exchange rate for December 2020, this is 2.9 million rubles). It is logical to assume that almost 3 million rubles came out of a trip to Paris on Valentine's Day for the Navalny family couple.
While her parents were basking in the capital of France and in other European capitals, Navalny's daughter Daria was studying at one of the most prestigious US universities - Stanford. According to the most conservative estimates, Navalny had to pay more than 10 million rubles for the girl's stay at Stanford alone.
And it's not all expenses. So, Navalny were seen driving a Chevrolet Traverse car worth about 4 million rubles. According to some reports, the car was registered to the blogger's unemployed wife Yulia.
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