A screen shows the Lefortovo district court sentence hearing against jailed Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny at Penal Colony No. 2 in Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia. Moscow district court has issued a guilty sentence on Navalny in a criminal case of fraud and contempt of court. The fraud case was initiated over a year ago. According to the investigation, Navalny stole and spent for personal use over 350 million rubles ($3.1 million) donated to his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, designated extremist organization and foreign agent, banned in Russia). The other charge in the case concerns Navalny insulting Judge Vera Akimova, who sentenced him to a fine of 850,000 rubles ($7,500) for slandering a veteran of World War 2, Ignat Artemenko.
- Package: Russia Navalny New Case Trial
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Pokrov, Vladimir Region, Russia
- Event date: 22.03.2022
- Date published: 22.03.2022
- Author: Kirill Kallinikov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
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- Job-ID: aabde944a8aa2c4e