A Russian judge has been asked to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in absentia for having allegedly broken the terms of a suspended sentence he had been serving and for other infractions, court documents showed on Tuesday.
Alexei Navalny now faces fraud charges from Russia after state investigators announced this evening that a new criminal case had been launched against the Kremlin critic, investigating the legitimacy of some of his financials. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which reviews serious crimes, on Tuesday night accused Mr Navalny and other unnamed individuals of large-scale fraud, claiming he had spent 356 million roubles (£3.6m) donated to.
Poisoned Kremlin Critic Navalny Told To Return To Russia Or Face Jail
December 29, 2020 06:24 GMT
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Russia s Federal Prison Service has told Kremlin critic and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny to return immediately from Germany where he is recovering from a near-fatal poisoning by a Soviet-era nerve agent or face jail in Russia.
In a December 28 statement, the prison service accused Navalny of violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence relating to a 2014 fraud conviction and of evading criminal inspectors.
Navalny fell ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20 and was treated and placed in an induced coma in a Siberian hospital before being transferred to a world-class facility in Germany.